Charlie Brooker doesn’t think AI is taking his job any time soon because it only produces trash

Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring”::Charlie Brooker doesn’t think AI is taking his job any time soon because it only produces trash

  • @[email protected]English
    14•1 year ago

    I think the breakthroughs in AI have largely happened now as we’re reaching a slowndown and an adoption phase

    The research has been stagnating. Video with temporal consistency doesn’t want to come, voice is still perceptibly non-human, openai is assembling 5 models in a trenchcoat to make gpt do images and it passing as progress, …

    Companies and people are adopting what is already there for new applications, it’s getting more common to see neural network models in lots of solutions where the tech adds good value and is applicable, but the models aren’t breaking new grounds like in 2021 anymore

    The only new fundamental developments i can recall in the core technology is the push for smaller models trainable on way less data and that can be specialized for certain applications. Far away from the shock we all got when AI suddenly learned to draw a picture from a prompt

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        We should be happy that we might still have a few more years left before AI renders us all obsolete.

        Wow, this is some spectacular hyperbole!

          • @aestheleteEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            It’s ridiculously easy to recreate almost anything on there at a similar or sometimes even better level of quality

            And ridiculously difficult to copyright any of it because it was generated.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•1 year ago

              Yes, AI doesn’t work with copyright.

              And since AI is here to stay, we better replace our failed copyright system with something proper. Disney be damned.

              • @aestheleteEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                we better replace our failed copyright system with something proper. Disney be damned.

                I’d like that? But if you’re expecting the “we” in here to be the current people in their current power structures I suspect you’ll be waiting an awfully long time for that result.

              • @aestheleteEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                The interesting question left is: Will static art survive at all? Will the future still have static movies or will everybody just generate their personalized dynamic entertainment on demand?

                Lol this reminds me of when Kramer from Seinfeld asks if we’ll still be using napkins in the year 2000 or if this “mouth vacuum” thing is for real.

                There’s already been court cases suggesting that AI art isn’t copyrightable.

                The AI art I’ve seen so far is about as compelling as random crap from deviant art. The only difference being at least the starving artists on there know how many fingers are on a hand.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•1 year ago

      I want to note that everything you talk about is happening on the scales of months to single years. That’s incredibly rapid pace, and also too short of a timeframe to determine true research trends.

      Usually research is considered rapid if there is meaningful progression within a few years, and more realistically about a decade or so. I mean, take something like real time ray tracing, for comparison.

      When I’m talking about the future of AI, I’m thinking like 10-20 years. We simply don’t know enough about what is possible to say what will happen by then.