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It's not that it will be replaced, but there's a natural progression of the types of media that is available on a given platform of distribution. RF: text (tel
by CharlieDigital 2y ago
It's not that it will be replaced, but there's a natural progression of the types of media that is available on a given platform of distribution.
RF: text (telegram), audio, still images (fax), moving images
Web had the same progression: text, still images (inverted here), audio age (MP3s, Napster), video (Netflix, YouTube)
AI: text, images, audio (realtime API), ...?
Vision is the obvious next medium.
- wwweston 2y agoLately I've been realizing that as much as I value YouTube, much of the content is distorted by various incentives favoring length and frequency and a tech culture which overfocuses on elaborating steps as an equivalent to an explanation. This contributes to more duplicate content (often even within the same channel) and less in terms of refined conceptualization. I find myself often wishing I had outlines, summaries, and hyperlinks to greater details. Of course, I can use AI tools to get approximations of such things, and it'll probably get better, which means we will now be using this increased bandwidth or progression to produce more video to be pushed out through the pipes and distilled by an AI tool into shorter video or something like hypertext. Progress!
- layer8 2y agoThat progression is obviously a consequence of being able to tackle increasingly large volumes of data, but that doesn’t make video an “ultimate API”, unless you just mean “the most demanding one in terms of data volume”.
- CharlieDigital 2y agoThat's the point: as bandwidth and capacity increases, there's a natural progression. So it's obvious that vision is next after audio.