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I think much more likely, at least this side of the singularity, what we'll have is infinite dreck. And for some people, that will be enough. It's extremely ha
by wpietri 4y ago
I think much more likely, at least this side of the singularity, what we'll have is infinite dreck. And for some people, that will be enough.
It's extremely hard to make good content. Teams of extremely skilled, well-paid people, even ones who have succeeded before, fail regularly. And that's with complicated filtering mechanisms and review cycles to limit who has access and keep the worst of it from getting out.
But not everybody needs everything to be actually good. My partner will sometimes unwind on a Friday by watching bad action movies; the bad ones are in some ways better, as they require less work to understand and are amusing in their own way. Or there's a mobile game I play when I want to not think, where you have to conquer a graph of nodes. The levels are clearly auto-generated, and it's fine.
I think that kind of serviceable junk is where we might see AI get to in a couple of decades, made for an audience that will get a weed gummy and a six pack and ask for a "sci-fi action adventure with lots of explosions" and get something with a half-assed plot, forgettable stereotypical characters and visuals that don't totally make sense, but that's fine. You won't learn anything, you won't be particularly moved, and you won't ever watch it again, but it will be a perfectly cromulent distraction between clocking out and going to bed.
- jrvarela56 4y agoWhenever I think of AI and its implications, I find it useful to think of our current version of the AI: The Market. Its profit-maximizing function is the canonical paperclip maximizer. We are going to absolutely drown in crap. Just as we do now, it's just going to flood the internet at an unimaginable pace. We'll probably train AIs to help us find stuff and tell what's real/true/etc; it's going to be a heck of an arms race. It's going to be one hell of an arms race.