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Nade_Duck posted...

this shit is depressing as fuck

there's just no point to anything anymore

I was a huge fan of AI, now they're making bots that can write music, (and it's really good) and I wish it was never invented.

Don't know what we're going to do about it other than to throw a fit until AI "art" is banned on every website. As we get older, the past is always going to seem better.

adjl posted...

Not with the current paradigm, which is to study examples of existing writing and recombine it to create something passable. Fundamentally, it can't create anything new or better than what already exists.

That said, the vast, vast majority of books that sell aren't the best books ever written. That's always going to be true, by simple virtue of how few "best books ever" there are. AI doesn't have to be better than all human writers, it just has to be good enough that the average consumer won't mind the shortcomings to enough of an extent to stop them from buying AI-generated books. At that point, writing as a profession is dead. No publisher is going to waste money on a human author that has a small chance of writing something that will sell better than AI books when - in the same amount of time and for a tiny fraction of the cost - they could have an AI produce dozens of books that will sell just fine.

Bonus points where the likely outcome there is that aspiring writers will just end up self-publishing on a smaller scale as a hobby, and AI's will end up studying the successful ones and ultimately incorporating them into something publishers will be able to make far more money from.

If you've following the research, AI's intelligence is growing exponentially. Believe it or not, it's already rivaling human intelligence on academic tests. It has a short-term memory. This includes looking at a picture, deciphering what's going on in the picture, and comprehending the consequences of doing any certain action in that world, then explaining it in English. This picture could be anything, a math problem, a street. These algorithms don't run on regular computers anymore, they run on corporate GPU farms, requiring hundreds of GB of VRAM. To run just one model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VSWyghVZIg

Most people don't understand how fast it's growing, and it's not slowing down. I'm not being sensationalist at all when I say it 10-20 years (or 2 at this rate) AI will be leagues smarter than a human at almost anything. These researchers are having great success doing anything they want.

I mean, just last year we were laughing at deformed frankenstien pictures. Now we're all being blown away because it's invented its own photorealistic rendering that's better than anything we have.