Do we really need more products, though?
Well, we don't need more throwaway trinkets. On the other hand, there are diseases to be cured, environmental problems to be solved, asteroids to mine, universal speech translators to implement....If those are "products," then more teams would be great.
The hard thing as I see it is that the barriers to progress aren't mainly technical right now. They're social, political, tribal, and in some sense spiritual.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqAlhvHtoe1/
Interesting to me that their IG posts usually get decent amounts of engagement but comparably, their AI ads failed miserably for engagement.
AI improving exponentially its output while organics being trained with exponential noise? What could go wrong?
We need to talk more about cultural noise/trash and weaponization of memes.
It's like the entropy / waste-product of algorithmic content production and ingestion, that the landfill of the internet fills up with more trash that has to be sifted through... to find the signal in the noise.
There will always be an environment that has to be adapted to, and an advantage accrued to those that do so better than the rest. This dynamic of more garbage in-garbage out may be a part of a near-term plateau in AI innovation.
Regarding AI art style media generators, there may also be a premium for quality human skill in a world where the democratization of low-effort uncanny valley "art" is so prevalent. Maybe a yearning for some sort of authenticity amongst the sterile mass-produced content.
I would be more worried if this trend in human visual taste wasn't a repeat of 1k yrs ago. Illuminated manuscripts featured flatland-styling and architecture of the time was as bland as the cybertruck too.
The real "danger" is people jumping on AI will make contemporary hand-made art like Star Wars appear high quality by comparison...
The sad part might be that our culture had mostly optimized people's intelligence to not think about an immortal soul that uses (at least 1) organic body to manifest itself in the world but to reduce itself to the organic form explaining all the limits of its existence. And now comes AI, the algebraic parrots exponentially accelerated to steal its kingdom.
Tip: You need to have just 1 lucid out of body experience to understand that "organics" are infinitely more than carbon-based life forms.
You know, "meatbags", "carbons",
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKl6WjfDqYA&pp=ygUUbWdzMiBha...
It's probably a trope from even older sci-fi, though I don't know which.
