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Billions purred into technology with minimal use case application. What is the direct implication of this tech? Porn on demand?

The idea that prompting is a creative tool is utterly illogical. This will result in a ton of mediocre synthetic crap for corporate presentations and porn generating.

Contrary to the trends in SV, dehumanization of creative professions will result not in productivity boost but in utter chaos and as a result will add more time loss in production process.

I never liked Sam Altman in his Y years, now I know why.

Even with the "blessings" from the "masters" in Davos/Bilderberg, a bad idea is a bad idea. Maybe this will push World ID as a result, but is it necessary?

The current trends in tech are not producing solutions for a professional problem. With rare exceptions, this looks more and more as removing of human input and normalization of a society ruled by AI at any cost. So sad.

What a joke. Shareholders like the axing. They believe this makes companies more resilient against recession. CEO's push away workers, and then rehire with lower wages. But this is due to AI. Ok, computer.

So the Turing test actually tests not a technology but the level of intelligence of the user. So, we are doomed, it seems.:)

Whatever happens in a couple of years will be 10-20 percent from projected marketing hype.

I don't think autocomplete is comparable with generative code processes. Using AI as a helper in analytics and documentation, yes.

But how knowing to code without AI will leave me in the dust? I will know less? Or I will be so slow that the management will oust me?

After measuring my "performance" trough corporate timer for code per minute?

I gave my friends the following advice.

Push yourselves away from AI trend tools and learn what is what before falling into this trap.

In the era of AI those who can think, draw, write, code and be the best in their craft without it will rule the rest. Simple and clear. Prompting is not a skill which will differentiate (except for AI devs, as a part of fine-tuning the model's output).

The real danger of AI is not getting agency ang killing us (yet).

The real danger, in my view, is normalization and trust into technology which "hallucinates" and obtains a formidable property with a name "The Black Box".

Don't get me starting on privacy.:)

It's a half a subway submarine sandwich length. This will succeed in America:)

Two problems: Infrastructure. Price. Solve this and nobody will think using ICE cars.

These are your sources? And please, the leader in information technology and psychology warfare is known to the whole world.

Practically all the listed sources are part of the complex of disinformation.

On the grand scale of things, the troll farms of Russians are a joke.

USA has more than 900 official military bases outside the territory of the country. Can you imagine the logistics? The agents? The infrastructure supporting this global operation? The budgets?

I have a side. The truth. The most links in this rabbit hole point to the operations of the USA agencies as a whole.

Russia has crumbled in the 90s and now is just starting to wake up.

If I have to measure threat and I am an American, I would ask: How on earth China has developed this enormous economical advantage over all of the world?

Who financed this growth? Who benefited the most? And why, after living through the Cold War, we are heading in a similar direction?

The real problem is that a lot of this “fake information” is a fact. For example, the USA foreign policy always leads to wars and war crimes and handful of corporations are the beneficiary on a global scale.

Maybe if you as Americans realize that your Constitutional rights are under attack, and there is no right or left in the political spectrum (just crooks and lobbyists), the world will have a chance to follow your example. Who knows?

The bigger issue is that "commie under your bed" techniques never died. Americans are the victim of mind control more than Russians. Russia is corrupt, but they lack the sophistication and resources to apply effective propaganda. Even Ukrainians kicked their but in information warfare.

And please, don't put me on some "Russian propaganda" troll theory. Go listen to Judge Napolitano podcast, with real American patriots like Colonel Douglas Macgregor, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Ray McGovern, Phil Giraldi, Larry Johnson, Tony Shafer, Prof. John J. Mearsheimer, Max Blumenthal.

Yes and no. Everything is fine until you hit the 2gb limit. The average professional laptop has a 16gb ram. Figma is not only the vector app. If someone wants serious vector work, Illustrator and Affinity Designer provide a solution.

Figma is more than this, and the complexity of the workflows requires offline support and more memory available to the app.:)

I am opening a bottle of champagne as we speak.

It is time to remove electron based app and invest in something that will have a proper memory management. Not only 2gb. My phone has more than this.

You have cornered the market. Now deliver.

Comparing Formula One pilot to passenger in an automated car which is driving on a F1 track? Working on your craft and learning with practice is "a luxury"? Seriously?

Art is encoding? People, start reading books. Your mind is trapped in a predictive and programmed pattern of consumerism and wishful thinking.

When your tool is painting/composing/writing instead of you, you are part of the process, not master of the process. But go ahead, sleep into AI induced coma. It will be fun. For sure.:)

Soon you will be into this possible UX:

Your dream will be recorded and shared with the corporate AI.

Because art is personal expression of emotion and meaning, and you are the ultimate AI artist, it is logical that you want a validation of your own beliefs more than watching others experiences.

So you will put your VR headset to think about entertainment and on the fly the corporate AI will generate a compelling story with music and visuals of your taste and liking. After all, everything is encoding. And people before you produced every possible scenario. LLMs hallucinate, which is artistic creativity after all. Right?

Another AI will charge your Social Rating a "small" amount of "carbon credits" to motivate you more and give you participations points for watching advertisements and propaganda.

You think this is a joke? Think again. The tech is here, the users are ready for this ultimate experience. The VS's are willing to invest.

Sure, in the beginning, some will share their dreams just to have a social validation dopamine rush. But with time, the AI audience will be more user-friendly and will consider your deepest fears of rejection and complexity of your digital self.

So you will have it all. Without any pressure, work or 10 000 hours of pushing your self towards a goal. Just consume your dreams synthesized through the network and call it a day.

I used similar workflow in a SD with Control Net/Depth mapping in the summer.

The key factor will be creating a distinctive style.

You will need an experienced artist for this. Limitation of the dataset. With this technology prevalent, designers and artist will stop sharing publicly their work due to fear of AI giants stealing it.

I expect serious legislation in place for generative visual AI. Copyright, etc.

Since when accessible tools are prerequisite for quality? Everybody can buy a pen or brushes.

As an artist, designer and developer, I am more aware of generative AI than the average "prompter" who the startups are using for fine-tuning of the models and pays a hefty price for the "privilege".

A good illustrator with AI and knowledge of composition, color, anatomy and real drawing skills will kick the B out of "everyone" who is prompting aspect ratios and the names of artists which work is represented/stolen in the data set.

The big names in the business will jump to this "novelty" out of hype and cost optimization, only to realize that the results are limited by the dataset and the shiny average of styles actually cannot give serious brand differentiation.

But hey, keep prompting, sorry, creating. You are not a part of the biggest Dunning-Kruger experiment to date. You are an artist, designer, composer, programmer and business owner. Good Luck.:)

I'm expecting a sobering year for AI in 2024, a result fueled by marketing gimmicks, closed training data and weights, false promises, chaos in recruiting, more tech layoffs due to economy (and false hopes for AI-powered workforce replacement), demotivation in the young workforce, etc.

Another reality hit for AI implementation will be the cost of generative AI API services and environmental impact of the process of training the models.

But I am not a Doctor, and CTO of big monopolist and I don't have a stake to sell you AI cloud services. So who knows..

Welcome to the future where nobody is professional because there is no need for professionals. Just ask Corporate Overlord Surveillance Bot to give you instruction on what to do and how to think. Voilà. You are the master of the Universe. Dunning-Kruger champion for the ages to come.

The problem is obvious. Time to reaction. API calls limitation. Average response for a complex task due to limitation of the vision module. Similar functionality has to be available for free with local model tuned to those type of tasks - helper/copilot. Apple and Microsoft will include helper models into the OS soon. Let's hope they are generous and don't turn this to a local data gathering funnel (I have my doubts on this).

Don't fall in love with your creation, is not stop creating.

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00365-3

The old Masters have a saying: Never fall in love with your creation. The AI industry is falling into the trap of their own making (marketing). LLM's are nice toys, but implementation is resource/energy expensive and murky at best. There are a lot of real life problems that would be solved trough rational approach. If someone is thirsty, the water is the most important part, not the type of glass:)

There is a notion that pessimist is inactive and only optimist creates desire for change. Hmmm...

Beautiful. This should be the new educational standard for visualization of complex topics and systemic thinking.

I find insulting the current hype. AGI? Seriously? A lossy text compressor with next word prediction and synthesis model build on stolen artists work is not the future.

Billions spend in training and energy. Meanwhile, there are wars and poverty is rampant.

Yes, LLM's have useful properties. But require fine-tuning and RAG implementation. Intelligence? Common. Let's stop with marketing and move again to be rational and practical.

Larry Summers? Microsoft? Alignment? Bye, bye humanity.

Stop dreaming about alignment. All bets are off. This is the start of AI arms race. Think globally for a second. Yes, everybody wants to be a millionaire or billionaire. This is the current culture we are living in. Corporations have unprecedented power waved into the governments, but governments still have a monopoly on violence. People cannot switch to the new abstraction layer (UBI, Social Rating) for two or five years. They will keep a consumer-oriented mindset before the option to have one is erased. Where you think this is going? To a better Democracy? This is the Cold War V.2 scenario unfolding.

Model chain:

Instance One : Act as a top tier Hollywood scenarist, use the public available data for emotional sentiment to generate a storyline, apply the well known archetypes from proven blockbusters for character development. Move to instance two.

Instance Two: Act as top tier producer. {insert generated prompt}. Move to instance three.

Instance Three: Generate Meta-humans and load personality traits. Move to instance four.

Instance Four: Act as a top tier director.{insert generated prompt}. Move to instance five.

Instance Five: Act as a top tier editor.{insert generated prompt}. Move to instance six.

Instance Six: Act as a top tier marketing and advertisement agency.{insert generated prompt}. Move to instance seven.

Instance Seven: Act as a top tier accountant, generate an interface to real-time ROI data and give me the results on an optimized timeline into my AI induced dream.

Personal GPT: Buy some stocks, diversify my portfolio, stock up on synthetic meat, bug-coke and Soma. Call my mom and tell her I made it.

Thanks, Ilya. Humanity first move. Never trust a greedy clown again. Hey, Microsoft. Have your Clippy:)

What a gem. I am out of popcorn. BRB:)

Color me surprised. Imagine this when OpenAI with all its "plugins", API and closed architecture is integrated into thousands of businesses. It will be beautiful:)