This is the most normal thing, and this is the best example

AI is: 'my wife wanted better lighting in our reno pic thingy'

This is healthy and way in the range of normal, not dystopian.

I assume the comment I am responding to was made in sarcasm, so I'm basing my response on that register, so apologies in advance if I have got this wrong.

I don't understand what is dystopian about this: With the exception of mildly elevated resource consumption to achieve the end goal (a nicer photo), is this not the sort of things that humans have been wanting and doing for as long as photographs have been a thing?

It was previously mostly unachievable for regular people to have their snapshots processed in such a way, but it feels like it's just making what used to be special mildly trivial. Anyone who has had their wedding photographed for the past 20 years has had the photos touched up on the way through. Any school portrait for just as long.

100 years ago people would dodge and burn photographic prints to improve them as much as the technology allowed. This is just the forward evolution of that old tale.

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bluegatty 10 hours ago | parent [-]

No sarcasm.

Maybe slightly odd is how anyone could possibly think I was being sarcastic. :)

I'm not attacking you here or anything :)

I'm just a bit shocked at how cynical people can be. The thought would not cross my mind ... and I'm a skeptic of many things!

There's a video somewhere of some people in Wyoming, riding horses.

All of the comments are young people shock of these 'boomers' committing 'animal abuse'.

I mean ... just ranchers riding horses.

People think that 'Ward Cleaver' form 'Leave It To Beaver' is some 'creepy twilight zone figure' ... when he's just literally a nice guy. Or rather the character is.

We're getting way to jaded!

So - I really mean it: AI is going to be mostly very pedantic stuff.

I witnessed the birth of computers and the internet - and while AI is definitely a big deal ... I think it's just going to feel like 'more computing stuff' in the end.

Computers started out for Science - then it became about video games, socialization, design, commerce, and of course 'gambling and porn' and all the 'same vices'.

Every step of the way there were people thinking it was being 'debauched' etc..

AI is going to be about the most mundane things, just as most technology is today.

It will be boring and in the background, and probably weird like a poorly designed, slow web-page full of cruft, but it will 'do the thing'.

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