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> You needed to have tools, skill, resources and time to do such things. Downloading a cracked copy of Photoshop and checking out a book from the library on ho

> You needed to have tools, skill, resources and time to do such things. Downloading a cracked copy of Photoshop and checking out a book from the library on how to edit photos is only somewhat more difficult than learning to use Python and write programs that generate art from some model. And only because learning anything is extremely easy today with so many free resources and help forums. > Anyone can do anything on any scale. I'll believe it when I see it. > Now that prices are low, that opens infinite number of new space exploration possibilities. Except SpaceX is still in the "crawl" phase of "crawl, walk, run", and they only got even that far because because an eccentric billionaire has staked his reputation on the problem and thrown a huge amount of money at it, without having to worry about things like "reporting to Congress" and "making sure the space program creates jobs in such-and-such voting district". And after all that effort and truly astounding engineering (the rocket lands itself back on the launch pad!!), space launches are still expensive, risky, and complicated, and will remain so into the foreseeable future (~decades).

kertoip_1 4y ago
> they only got even that far because because an eccentric billionaire has staked his reputation on the problem and thrown a huge amount of money at it That's what Bezos did with its Blue Origin. If you check where is Blue Origin in space race, you'll quickly realize it's not enough Edit: ah, and is space still expensive? If one of universities in my middle-sized country with no space engineering background could afford to launch cubesat via SpaceX, then yes, I think it became cheap.
- nerdponx 4y ago
  Did Bezos stake his reputation on Blue Origin? I think it'd be a lot less embarrassing for him if Blue Origin folded than it would be for Musk if SpaceX folded.
nextaccountic 4y ago
> Python Most people using those models aren't writing Python code. Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/, https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/ https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/, https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/ https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/, https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/ etc I expect that once the technology matures, a smaller and smaller niche of users will be doing any kind of programming
viscanti 4y ago
> Downloading a cracked copy of Photoshop and checking out a book from the library on how to edit photos is only somewhat more difficult than learning to use Python and write programs that generate art from some model. How much practice would one need after doing that, before they're able to match the quality of some of the AI generated art? Not all of the AI generated artwork is perfect, but some of the art would take the average person years of practice to be able to match. Some art requires more than a cracked copy of Photoshop and a weekend of reading a book you borrowed from a library. You may be surprised to find that some people spend years honing their craft.

kertoip_1 4y ago

> they only got even that far because because an eccentric billionaire has staked his reputation on the problem and thrown a huge amount of money at it That's what Bezos did with its Blue Origin. If you check where is Blue Origin in space race, you'll quickly realize it's not enough Edit: ah, and is space still expensive? If one of universities in my middle-sized country with no space engineering background could afford to launch cubesat via SpaceX, then yes, I think it became cheap.

nerdponx 4y ago
Did Bezos stake his reputation on Blue Origin? I think it'd be a lot less embarrassing for him if Blue Origin folded than it would be for Musk if SpaceX folded.

nextaccountic 4y ago

> Python Most people using those models aren't writing Python code. Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/, https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/ https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/, https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/ https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/, https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/ etc I expect that once the technology matures, a smaller and smaller niche of users will be doing any kind of programming

viscanti 4y ago

> Downloading a cracked copy of Photoshop and checking out a book from the library on how to edit photos is only somewhat more difficult than learning to use Python and write programs that generate art from some model. How much practice would one need after doing that, before they're able to match the quality of some of the AI generated art? Not all of the AI generated artwork is perfect, but some of the art would take the average person years of practice to be able to match. Some art requires more than a cracked copy of Photoshop and a weekend of reading a book you borrowed from a library. You may be surprised to find that some people spend years honing their craft.