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>What I always wonder is what is the end-goal of the current AI movement? What's the point of it all? I also share this view. I would also argue that this is n
by entropi 3y ago
>What I always wonder is what is the end-goal of the current AI movement? What's the point of it all?
I also share this view. I would also argue that this is not even about the productivity. I mean, I don't think the currently automated parts were ever the bottlenecks in any good products.
There are already more stuff being produced every year from a single publisher that is more than I can consume. And most of it is just shit. Think of Ubisoft games. They are already churning out a few new games every year, each of them chock full of beautiful assets in a very boring world, with an extremely repetitive shitty gameplay. And now with AI they can produce even more beautiful assets with even more shitty gameplay and even more boring worlds, I guess.
Artists were already mostly a starving bunch (meaning the supply was already higher than the demand), good writers (and other auteurs) with strong vision were what was rare. And now, as humanity, we decided to divert some of the best engineering talent to automate the former? Why though, what is the point, really?
I don't know when was the last time I really felt bored. I am sure I am not alone in that. What is the point of exponentially increasing the content production rate? I am really struggling to understand the appeal here.
- sandspar 3y agoI trust that people will come up with interesting uses for the new technology. > In the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers."
- entropi 3y agoThat may or may not be a fair point; admittedly I can not see the future, but you could say the same for everything. Including things like "the solutions in search of a problem". What is for sure is that currently I cannot see how it is solving any real, painful problems.