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Here’s something I don’t get. If the generative AI gets so good it can diagnose disease or give us perfectly curated experiences, why wouldn’t it just “generat

Here’s something I don’t get. If the generative AI gets so good it can diagnose disease or give us perfectly curated experiences, why wouldn’t it just “generate content” at an expert level? Why would we need to compensate “content creators” at all. It would just take our preferences and give us an endless stream of Avengers themed content (for example), generating new stories, blog posts, and fan sites as fast as we can consume. For that matter, it could give us expert level prediction articles as fast as we can read them.

drpixie 4y ago
If the generative AI gets so good... I'm waiting, but don't believe it is/will be "that good". Language models are about language, not knowledge - our human gullibility and hopefulness is a vital factor in the current "success" of generative systems.
- phoehne 4y ago
  I was actually trying to point out the irony of the idea that artists and programmers should get used to being displaced by AI, while this author won't? But that being said, I could see a world where the language model AI generates new Avengers scripts, while the deep fake AI and the CGI AI generate the movie. The reviewer AI tailors the review to the reader, on demand, so the reader is assured that their choice of entertainment is awesome! Then the blogger language model AI goes into all the possible plot twists and easter eggs that may have been in there, generating endless YouTube fan videos. We may, one day, live in a world where fandom gets 1 minute of new content every 30 seconds. Maybe completely on-demand so that, yes, the real hero is a hypertensive, 42 year old, who was pivotal to helping the super-hero hero out! And as long as it's canon and pretty much like the other stuff that same hypertensive, 42 year old likes, it's great! Did you know it's Canon that Aquaman is on Lipitor and drives a Buick? I should totally ask my doctor about a Buick... or is it the Lipitor?

drpixie 4y ago

If the generative AI gets so good... I'm waiting, but don't believe it is/will be "that good". Language models are about language, not knowledge - our human gullibility and hopefulness is a vital factor in the current "success" of generative systems.

phoehne 4y ago
I was actually trying to point out the irony of the idea that artists and programmers should get used to being displaced by AI, while this author won't? But that being said, I could see a world where the language model AI generates new Avengers scripts, while the deep fake AI and the CGI AI generate the movie. The reviewer AI tailors the review to the reader, on demand, so the reader is assured that their choice of entertainment is awesome! Then the blogger language model AI goes into all the possible plot twists and easter eggs that may have been in there, generating endless YouTube fan videos. We may, one day, live in a world where fandom gets 1 minute of new content every 30 seconds. Maybe completely on-demand so that, yes, the real hero is a hypertensive, 42 year old, who was pivotal to helping the super-hero hero out! And as long as it's canon and pretty much like the other stuff that same hypertensive, 42 year old likes, it's great! Did you know it's Canon that Aquaman is on Lipitor and drives a Buick? I should totally ask my doctor about a Buick... or is it the Lipitor?