I'm usually very much a skeptic when it comes to "revolutionary" tech. I think the blockchain is crap. I think fully self-driving cars are still a long way away

I'm usually very much a skeptic when it comes to "revolutionary" tech. I think the blockchain is crap. I think fully self-driving cars are still a long way away. I think that VR and the metaverse are going to remain gimmicks in the foreseeable future. But this DALL-E thing, it's really blowing my mind. That and deep fakes, now that's sci-fi tech. It's both exciting and a bit scary. The idea that in the not so far future one will be able to create images (and I presume later, audio and video) of basically anything with just a simple text prompt is rife with potential (both good and bad). It's going to change the way we look at art, it's also going to give incredibly powerful creative tools to the masses. For me the endgame would be an AI sufficiently advanced that one could prompt "make an episode of Seinfeld that centers around deep fakes" and you'd get an episode virtually indistinguishable from a real one. Home-made, tailor-made entertainment. Terrifyingly amazing. See you in a few decades...