I've been asked why I don't post smaller lists. The truth is I have too much info, but expect others to make connections with it. The post with the Zelda Rogue like gave me some courage to make an example.
It seems the AI Doomers are losing.
AI has beaten the Doomers
While they are saying the hype is over.
Hype for AI is ending, so work can actually be done with it
Is the Gen AI bubble bursting?
Meanwhile databases are going insane to provide for AI
Data bricks and Shutterstock are trying to stay relevant in the AI world by being image suppliers. They try to sound moral and strong in this article.
Academic databases and publishers are demanding more papers and books to add to the AI databases
And governments are admitting to using them.
Mi6 and CIA admit to using generative AI
And the big names are using up power like none other to reach the next breakthrough.
There's not enough electricity to create the next huge AI discovery
It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
Google is causing global warming with AI
The interview with the former Google CEO and his opinions on how AI should be used. He wants to build cheap 3D printed drones with AI making targets to attack the enemy. He wants Canada to lend power to the AI industry. There's a lot in here, and it's broken up by commentary by the video creator.
There are even attempts to make solar power a use.
This article prompted a solar powered data center because AI has stalled the Power Transition to greener supplies.
Meanwhile companies like NVidia make trillions. The big names want big computers for centralized systems. However, smaller AI for more standard computers is coming and being used. It's my next big step, but my computer keeps breaking down, so I'm forced to use Runway ECT.
But that's the likely big thing, normal computers using AI. I've seen stuff even before the big names could do it, but videos are hard to archive. This is the likely reason why the big names are talking so much about Responsibility in AI. Then they can regulate the next big thing to themselves.
What will it take to achieve responsible AI?
How open source ai creates responsible AI
Open letter to MidJourney that all AI should be government controlled
Rome Call to AI Ethics
Safety conscious creators at openAI are leaving
EU warns Microsoft that they have to be responsible
Keep in mind, these are the same people demanding power from Canada, or the government directly. It's not about responsibility, but about control.
Godfather of AI says it should be regulated, because the message will be lost! And interview.
Stable Diffusion was used to make child porn. We need all AI to be regulated so we can stop this.
A bill that would control what AI can do in California is getting ‘support’ from AI workers. The companies are against it.
If all this money is being thrown at AI, why don't they make socialism?
NVidia wins no matter what though. Just letting you know.
I was actually about to ask this in the other thread yeah. It's not just that they're too long though, its that they are separated into different threads.
I'd love to have a discussion on this whole gen-ai stuff, in the same thread as you'd linked the human art stuff.
Personally, I think that gen ai has reached the peak of a wave, that initial nfr/crpto bro push, so there's a mini crash in interest. It's also now seen as slop, generic shit, by a lot of people. And not unfairly so. But that's just gen-ai, the one that every consumer is directly exposed to. Not the backend stuff that's more functionally useful. Look at that rate of improvement though, just give it another 2 generations though, which at this rate is only taking a year, and it'll be a real force to content with, I'm still holding nvidea. Just gotta watch for model-collapse and stuff as they feed ai ai-generated content. And with google searching having become shit for filtering by date over the past 5 years, there's some up-coming issues.
Nvidia's the shovel seller in the proverbial gold rush. Even they will reach saturation as all the big corpos buy all the chips they need.
If you think AI has legs (I don't), then you should be looking into utilities for the next investment opportunity. These data centers are power-hungry, and AI companies will need cheap electricity to make all the AI bullshit worthwhile.
Utilities seem so volatile, I trust in the shovel sellers, but energy just keeps flip flopping from trump free flowing to harris no drill, blowing up pipelines and insane restrictions.
I'd put money in if harris 'wins', knowing it will shoot up in cost.
You're thinking of Energy. Energy (or energy production) and Utilities (or energy distribution) are considered two different sectors of the economy.
Energy is definitely volatile at the best of times, whereas Utilities are more stable and seen as safety during a recessionary environment. People still have to pay their bills, after all.
Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. Do your own research.
Ah gotcha. Fair enough that makes sense.
So why don't you think AI has legs then?
That's a good idea, NVidia is the shovel seller. I like that.
It does get interesting because the USA doesn't want China to use the AI, but the majority of upper management at NVidia are Chinese. China has released a lot of stuff, even AI cards, to combat NVidia. It's a shovel war.
Yeah, the problem with any design right now, it that I need to use multiple AIs to build anything. Image? MidJourney. Text? ChatGPT. 3D Build? CSM. A presentation with all this? Canva. I have to feed the info back and forth between ais. The only way I can do this is to know what I am doing anyway, so I need to know non AI as well.
Tons of middle management think they can control everything by telling an AI to do something, and then get angry when they don't have the skills to do it. The place I'm seeing the most progress is on LinkedIn, but it's hard to archive that and keep my identity, or archive a video.
I think AI has won, and now it's time to actually use it instead of arguing over who has what.
Is that basically what Runway is? I've only watched the various videos on YouTube so correct me if wrong but it seems to use the existing algorithms to build fully animated scenes. Not that it does everything either though.
It can make videos and it can animate images. You can also show an image, and a video, add a text prompt and get results. This has been the big thing among techies at the moment. For example someone made a bad video of a blender building and then had it look way better using runway.