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As with everything AI related it seems this sub-field is making enormously fast progress. The most exciting long-term effect of this, in my view, will be the d

As with everything AI related it seems this sub-field is making enormously fast progress. The most exciting long-term effect of this, in my view, will be the democratization of storytelling. The sort of stories we get given today by Hollywood / Netflix / Apple TV / national TV channels tend towards duplication and are dominated by particular ideologies and beliefs. The lack of optimistic sci-fi is one symptom of this. I think it happens due to budget increases driving centralization. YouTube is far more diverse and vibrant, but even great YouTube content is very low budget compared to a typical TV show or film. Combining Epic's tech stack (Unreal 5, Quixel MegaScans, Metahuman) with AI generated assets could break this and allow for the production of stories that would be considered too risky, niche or ideologically unacceptable by existing studios. By allowing the assets to be forked it will also become possible to scale up story production far beyond the episodes-in-seasons format required by conventional TV, in which fanfic and canonical lore blur together with "canonical" becoming the set of fan-produced episodes that are blessed by the original creators.

terran57 4y ago
I was playing around with ChatGPT to generate a rather humorous story (well, at least I thought it was) which got me thinking along these lines. Excited to see what comes out of these technologies.
laidoffamazon 4y ago
What was the bottleneck that was seemingly lifted to cause this significant progress? Was it the CLIP release? The DALLE paper?
- ftufek 4y ago
  I think it's a combination of many things. Very powerful compute, very large datasets, transformers and diffusion models and a ton of research by lots of researchers easily available on arxiv, etc.
- tehsauce 4y ago
  There has been pretty significant steady progress for almost the last 10 years, but only recently finally crossed into the realm of broad usefulness. This has driven an influx of people and funding to the field which increases the rate of progress even further.
SheinhardtWigCo 4y ago
Video games too - imagine modding a game simply by describing your desired changes in natural language.

terran57 4y ago

I was playing around with ChatGPT to generate a rather humorous story (well, at least I thought it was) which got me thinking along these lines. Excited to see what comes out of these technologies.

laidoffamazon 4y ago

What was the bottleneck that was seemingly lifted to cause this significant progress? Was it the CLIP release? The DALLE paper?

ftufek 4y ago
I think it's a combination of many things. Very powerful compute, very large datasets, transformers and diffusion models and a ton of research by lots of researchers easily available on arxiv, etc.
tehsauce 4y ago
There has been pretty significant steady progress for almost the last 10 years, but only recently finally crossed into the realm of broad usefulness. This has driven an influx of people and funding to the field which increases the rate of progress even further.

SheinhardtWigCo 4y ago

Video games too - imagine modding a game simply by describing your desired changes in natural language.