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That's definitely the future, personalized entertainment and social interactions will be big. I could watch a movie made for me, and discuss it with a bunch of

That's definitely the future, personalized entertainment and social interactions will be big. I could watch a movie made for me, and discuss it with a bunch of chat bots. The future will be bubbly as hell, people will be decaying in their safe places as the hellscape rages on outside.

pydry 4y ago
I get the feeling that creative sci fi used to kind of help inoculate us against these kinds of future but it seems like there's much less of it than there used to be. "Black mirror" was good but it's not nearly enough.
rasz 4y ago
You really dont want to live in Mindwarp (1992 Bruce Campbell movie) or in this !114! year old short story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
- dTal 4y ago
  The Machine Stops is eerily prescient - or perhaps just keenly observant of trends visible even at the time - but in fairness the humans in it are not socially isolated, as such; they do not converse with bots, but rather with each other. The primary social activity in the The Machine Stops is the Zoom meeting. I do not look forward to the day when that story becomes an optimistic view of the future.
  - mrguyorama 4y ago
    That story is already an optimistic view compared to our own: They have no ads
Planktonne 4y ago
> I could watch a movie made for me We're a long, long way from this. Stringing words/images together into a coherent sequence is arguably the easy bit of creating novels/films, and computers still lag a long way behind humans in this regard. Structuring a narrative is a harder, subtler step. Our most advanced ML solutions are improving rapidly, but often struggle with coherence over a single paragraph; they're not going to be doing satisfying foreshadowing and emotional beats for a while.
- natly 4y ago
  We're probably a long way away from narrative, but dall-e for video is probably only a year or two away from now (they're probably training the model as we speak).
  - htrp 4y ago
    https://video-diffusion.github.io/ https://video-diffusion.github.io/ Google's got you!
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- jb_s 4y ago
  For many movies, sure. I'm pretty sure the Marvel franchise is shat out by an algorithm.
  - orbital-decay 4y ago
    You jest, but it really is the case. When your movie has a goddamn board of directors, you can be 100% sure it will be A/B tested until it transmutes the surrounding air into gold.
- axg11 4y ago
  > We're a long, long way from this. We’re probably 18 months away from this. We’re probably less than 5 years away from being able to do this on local hardware. AI/ML is advancing faster than most people realise.
- fumblebee 4y ago
  Maybe. But I think a lot of folks have a short term memory; it was not so long ago that Word2Vec and AlexNet were SOTA. Remember when the thought of a human besting a world-class player at Go was impossible? Me too. We've come ludicrously far since then. That progress doesn't guarantee that innovation in the space will continue at its current pace, but it sure does feel like it's possible.
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pydry 4y ago

I get the feeling that creative sci fi used to kind of help inoculate us against these kinds of future but it seems like there's much less of it than there used to be. "Black mirror" was good but it's not nearly enough.

rasz 4y ago

You really dont want to live in Mindwarp (1992 Bruce Campbell movie) or in this !114! year old short story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

dTal 4y ago
The Machine Stops is eerily prescient - or perhaps just keenly observant of trends visible even at the time - but in fairness the humans in it are not socially isolated, as such; they do not converse with bots, but rather with each other. The primary social activity in the The Machine Stops is the Zoom meeting. I do not look forward to the day when that story becomes an optimistic view of the future.
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  That story is already an optimistic view compared to our own: They have no ads

Planktonne 4y ago

> I could watch a movie made for me We're a long, long way from this. Stringing words/images together into a coherent sequence is arguably the easy bit of creating novels/films, and computers still lag a long way behind humans in this regard. Structuring a narrative is a harder, subtler step. Our most advanced ML solutions are improving rapidly, but often struggle with coherence over a single paragraph; they're not going to be doing satisfying foreshadowing and emotional beats for a while.

natly 4y ago
We're probably a long way away from narrative, but dall-e for video is probably only a year or two away from now (they're probably training the model as we speak).
- htrp 4y ago
  https://video-diffusion.github.io/ https://video-diffusion.github.io/ Google's got you!
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jb_s 4y ago
For many movies, sure. I'm pretty sure the Marvel franchise is shat out by an algorithm.
- orbital-decay 4y ago
  You jest, but it really is the case. When your movie has a goddamn board of directors, you can be 100% sure it will be A/B tested until it transmutes the surrounding air into gold.
axg11 4y ago
> We're a long, long way from this. We’re probably 18 months away from this. We’re probably less than 5 years away from being able to do this on local hardware. AI/ML is advancing faster than most people realise.
fumblebee 4y ago
Maybe. But I think a lot of folks have a short term memory; it was not so long ago that Word2Vec and AlexNet were SOTA. Remember when the thought of a human besting a world-class player at Go was impossible? Me too. We've come ludicrously far since then. That progress doesn't guarantee that innovation in the space will continue at its current pace, but it sure does feel like it's possible.
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