We are among the few generations that will ever see something like this. Enough technology to create cool choreographed hyper-slowmo videos. But before all videos like this will be exclusively AI and not a video of something that happened physically.
Supposedly wood is among the rarest materials in the universe. Seeing a videos like this is far more rare.
Embedding entertainment like that with education would work wonders. Even on smaller, cheaper levels.
Wish I had more than just myself in Windsor to do original creative stuff, wrangle resources, and collaborate. It would make so much go faster. I suspect that once I've started and proven myself folks will emerge.
I'm not nearly so pessimistic. AI is a wonderful tool, but the backlash against it (observable currently) will prompt a movement of some size that demands "real" in their films and videos, possibly as aggressively ascetic as "Dogma 95" was thirty years ago.
Unleashing and enabling creativity is good, and second- and third-order effects of something new are generally not what anybody predicted, and better than anybody predicted.
There are self fulfilling prophesies and there are anti-prophesies. For there to be backlash people need to worry about a future that is only AI. And then the doom-sayers will be wrong because of that backlash. But only because they said something.
If we warn about downsides to AI then people will be cautious and that caution will shape the outcome. People will keep an active eye for ways to mitigate the worries.
Should you experience fear while driving? What if you experience none? Is that dangerous? What we are doing now is a lot more novel than driving. We don't have experience doing this before. We are first time drivers. What we are doing is a lot more dangerous than driving. And we can hardly see the road or know what long term result any particular control will do. The future will happen regardless. But while it's happening regardless, if we are very cautious, we might actually get a good result. Those who yelled caution can be called idiots later.
Of course we should be cautious about how we are cautious. Imposing controls on everyone's access to a computer via government is a cure by a poison pill
I'm not saying there is no risk and no bad associated with AI. What I am saying is that it is such a huge magnifier of productivity that it would be foolish to sideline it.
Buggy whip manufacturers were completely against the horseless carriage. And, indeed, there are exceedingly few buggy whip manufacturers now as compared to a hundred and thirty years ago. But human life, on balance, has improved so much more thanks to the horseless carriage that it's insane to suggest that it should have been strangled because some people with a stake in an inferior competitor said it should be. Or even because of the actual downsides that came with it.
Freedom works. Controlled freedom, not so much, nor nearly so well.
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We are among the few generations that will ever see something like this. Enough technology to create cool choreographed hyper-slowmo videos. But before all videos like this will be exclusively AI and not a video of something that happened physically.
Supposedly wood is among the rarest materials in the universe. Seeing a videos like this is far more rare.
Embedding entertainment like that with education would work wonders. Even on smaller, cheaper levels.
Wish I had more than just myself in Windsor to do original creative stuff, wrangle resources, and collaborate. It would make so much go faster. I suspect that once I've started and proven myself folks will emerge.
So like VH1's old "Pop Up Video", but with more substance?
I'm not nearly so pessimistic. AI is a wonderful tool, but the backlash against it (observable currently) will prompt a movement of some size that demands "real" in their films and videos, possibly as aggressively ascetic as "Dogma 95" was thirty years ago.
Unleashing and enabling creativity is good, and second- and third-order effects of something new are generally not what anybody predicted, and better than anybody predicted.
There are self fulfilling prophesies and there are anti-prophesies. For there to be backlash people need to worry about a future that is only AI. And then the doom-sayers will be wrong because of that backlash. But only because they said something.
If we warn about downsides to AI then people will be cautious and that caution will shape the outcome. People will keep an active eye for ways to mitigate the worries.
Should you experience fear while driving? What if you experience none? Is that dangerous? What we are doing now is a lot more novel than driving. We don't have experience doing this before. We are first time drivers. What we are doing is a lot more dangerous than driving. And we can hardly see the road or know what long term result any particular control will do. The future will happen regardless. But while it's happening regardless, if we are very cautious, we might actually get a good result. Those who yelled caution can be called idiots later.
Of course we should be cautious about how we are cautious. Imposing controls on everyone's access to a computer via government is a cure by a poison pill
I'm not saying there is no risk and no bad associated with AI. What I am saying is that it is such a huge magnifier of productivity that it would be foolish to sideline it.
Buggy whip manufacturers were completely against the horseless carriage. And, indeed, there are exceedingly few buggy whip manufacturers now as compared to a hundred and thirty years ago. But human life, on balance, has improved so much more thanks to the horseless carriage that it's insane to suggest that it should have been strangled because some people with a stake in an inferior competitor said it should be. Or even because of the actual downsides that came with it.
Freedom works. Controlled freedom, not so much, nor nearly so well.
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