I feel like I've been hearing someone say AI is going to change everything for years now and we've had some cool advancements like better language translations, voice emulation, image generation and enhancement, some barebones essay writing and better/quick search summarization but aside from that, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot that I am aware of.
Someone mentions how AI has made big advances in some industries for certain niche tasks. That's good but again not life changing.
Is AI actually going to change much or is it going to be as it already has. Rather incremental, fairly niche and nothing earth shattering?
If AI is truly going to be groundbreaking stuff that'll change everything what are some sorts of skills/knowledge that will be useful in knowing in the future to make use of the coming "AI age"?
I really feel like AI is just a giant scam to make techbros tons of money and give them more influnece in politics, tbh. I feel lke it's really being overstated.
I think the key thing with the various AI tools is specifically how uniquely they can be utilized in a lot of ways while involving far, far less involved effort.
Like just consider procedural generation for a moment. Even the best procedural generation can be an absolute pain to work with and to refine. Throw in AI tools as a wildcard cog in the overall process and a game developer could find themselves cutting down on their workload by a significant margin, while also "possibly" having some chance of leading to some uniquely cool/unique results in the process.
And you can easily do it in such a way that you're not sacrificing quality by taking overly automated shortcuts. Obviously not everyone's going to take such a measured approach... but in the right hands, it absolutely can be.
I agree, there’s a lot of backend work for things that need to be varied or can be random that AI will be useful for, but the average person isn’t really going to see the results of that for quite a while.
Oh I quite agree. The most the average person might practically benefit from such tools would probably involve using a setup as some kind of personal assistant (for the purposes of keeping organized, quick info lookups, reminders, etc etc.).
Unfortunately, it's also just inconvenient enough of a case scenario for most people to set up themselves (privately self-hosting) that this is the exact vector where a lot of people are going to end up exploited by data mining companies who provide (online) out of the box services.