I think it will be missing whatever you want to call the human spirit for a long time. It’s missing in writing and it’s missing in pictures. The technical ability is advancing at an impressive pace, but at the end of the day I find things generated by AI to just feel empty and dull.
I still use them and enjoy them and want to see how far they can go, but I think there is an upper bound that is below human journeyman level until we create a vastly different sort of AI that might surpass sentience and perhaps even be considered sapient. And we’re currently far short of sentient.
Pictures have an easy fix because text is the worst possible input. It’s a demo gone feral. Image-to-image can fill content and apply style over anything, which is how you get those detailed medieval landscapes where you squint and it’s Rick Astley.
The near-future use of this tech is rendering blocky CGI (or even just finger-painting keyframes) and having the machine tweak that to hell and back.
I think it will be missing whatever you want to call the human spirit for a long time. It’s missing in writing and it’s missing in pictures. The technical ability is advancing at an impressive pace, but at the end of the day I find things generated by AI to just feel empty and dull.
I still use them and enjoy them and want to see how far they can go, but I think there is an upper bound that is below human journeyman level until we create a vastly different sort of AI that might surpass sentience and perhaps even be considered sapient. And we’re currently far short of sentient.
Pictures have an easy fix because text is the worst possible input. It’s a demo gone feral. Image-to-image can fill content and apply style over anything, which is how you get those detailed medieval landscapes where you squint and it’s Rick Astley.
The near-future use of this tech is rendering blocky CGI (or even just finger-painting keyframes) and having the machine tweak that to hell and back.