| ▲ | incognito124 5 hours ago |
| Watched it a while ago. Made me seriously think about AI and what we should use it for. I feel like all the entertainment use cases (image and video gen) are a complete waste. |
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| ▲ | mattlondon 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The chatbots and image editors are just a side-show. The real value is coming in e.g. chemistry (Alpha fold etc all), fusion research, weather prediction etc. |
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| ▲ | poszlem 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The real value is coming in warfare. | | |
| ▲ | awaythrow999 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Right. More accurate predictions for meta-data based killings which as championed by US in their war on terror | | |
| ▲ | walletdrainer 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Metadata based killings are most likely a huge improvement from the prior state of affairs | | |
| ▲ | modeless an hour ago | parent [-] | | Yeah. Let the leaders assassinate each other with drone strikes instead of indiscriminately bombing whole cities as they used to. |
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| ▲ | echelon 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | None of that has reached the market yet. If it was up to the sciences alone, AI couldn't bear the weight of its own costs. It also needs to be vertically integrated to make money, otherwise it's a handout to the materials science company. I can't see any of the AI companies stretching themselves that thin. So they give it away for goodwill or good PR. | | |
| ▲ | incognito124 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's not really true. Commercial weather prediction has reached the market, and a drug (sorry, can't find the new s link) that was found by AI-accelerated drug discovery is now in clinical testing |
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| ▲ | threethirtytwo 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why are images and video a complete waste? This makes no sense to me. Right now the generators aren’t effective but they are definitely stepping stones to something better in the future. If that future thing produces video, movies and pictures better than anything humanity can produce at a rate faster than we can produce things… how is that a waste? It can arguably be bad for society but definitely not a waste. |
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| ▲ | QuantumGood 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Parent said "entertainment use cases" are a complete waste, not all uses of images and video. I don't agree, but do particularly find educational use cases of AI video are becoming compelling. I help people turn wire rolling shelf racks into the base of their home studio, and AI can now create a "how to attach something to a wire shelf rack" without me having to do all the space and rack and equipment and lighting and video setup, and just use a prompt. It's not close to perfect yet, but it's becoming useful. | | |
| ▲ | threethirtytwo an hour ago | parent [-] | | If AI can produce movies, video and art better aka “more entertaining” then humans than how is it a waste? | | |
| ▲ | wasmainiac 29 minutes ago | parent [-] | | But it’s not. I think most can agree that there really has not been any real entertainment from genAI beyond novelty crap like seeing Lincoln pulling a nice track at a skate park. No one wants to watch genAI slop video, no one wants to listen to genAI video essays, most people do not want to read genAI blog posts. Music is a maybe, based on leaderboards, but it is not like we ever had a lack of music to listen to. |
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| ▲ | incognito124 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Let me phrase it a bit differently, then: AI generated cats in Ghibli style are a waste, we should definitely do less of that. I did not hold that opinion before the documentary Education-style infographics and videos are OK. | | |
| ▲ | threethirtytwo an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I’m not even talking about this. Those cat videos are just stepping stones for academy award winning masterpieces of cinema like dune. All generated by AI on a click in one second. | |
| ▲ | danielbln 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm glad you're not the sole arbiter for what is wasteful and what isn't. | | |
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| ▲ | modeless 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You might have said the same thing about GPUs for 20 years when they were mostly for games, before they turned out to be essential for AI. All the entertainment use cases were directly funding development of the next generation of computing all along. |
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| ▲ | tim333 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Practical things are probably treating diseases and more abundance of physical goods. More speculative/sci-fi is merging in some form with AI and maybe immortality which I think is the more interesting bit. |
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| ▲ | jeffbee 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| DeepMind's new [edit: apparently now old] weather forecast model is similar in architecture to the toys that generate videos of horses addressing Congress or cats wearing sombreros. The technology moves forward and while some of the new applications are not important, other applications of the same technology may be important. |
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| ▲ | incognito124 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Is it really similar? I was under the impression it's a GNN of a (really dense) polyhedron, not a diffusion model | | |
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