Welcome back man! I feel the same way about AI and how everything has been going. I feel like we are in a very strange transitional point in human history with no idea where we will end up.
Looking forward to seeing your posts.
Welcome back man! I feel the same way about AI and how everything has been going. I feel like we are in a very strange transitional point in human history with no idea where we will end up.
Looking forward to seeing your posts.
Hey Rick! Thanks so much for the warm welcome back, really appreciate it man :-)
The way AI has developed over the past few years, for the longest time it seemed to me like it was heading for a plateau — where most people would basically just use generative AI as a chatbot in the ChatGPT web interface, and additionally for generating AI-slop images. And to be fair, that image side of things has developed quite impressively: from hands with seven fingers and women with three breasts, to something that's actually correct, all the way to genuinely unbelievable realistic video and voice imitation like in this video: WOW, just... WOW — absolutely insane.
But the past few weeks — and I mean literally weeks — I'm seeing developments especially on the Agentic AI front, and now we're looking through a very technical lens here (also from a data science background), that make me think the world is absolutely not ready for what's coming. And probably never will be, to be quite honest.
I'm genuinely concerned about things that are going to happen for which no real solutions exist. Things that will cause serious, real-world harm to people. Think for example about hyperrealistic facial simulation of real people, with fabricated bodies attached underneath that are indistinguishable from real footage — created purely to humiliate, bully, and destroy people. I think we're going to see some absolutely devastating consequences from this. People who end up deeply, severely traumatized... or worse. And beyond that, there are all sorts of security implications that practically nobody is thinking about, and that I won't even begin to type out here in a comment...
In short: "interesting times" ahead. And I don't mean that in a comfortable way ;-)
PS: Check your Discord more often! I want to schedule a call / online meeting with you, about this and other stuff.
PS2: Yup, I will continue to post often from here on! Will you too? ;-)
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I have been playing around with Cursor. Extremely handy. But you really gotta be careful with it. The AI agents can wreak havoc on your code. Gotta make sure you are using git. lol!
We are in a place where I am literally questioning what it means to be sentient being. Kurzweil was right about the singularity, but I think it is approaching sooner rather than later. We are truly in an age where we can no longer predict the future, even a little bit; and what is beyond the event horizon is a complete black box.
It is both extremely terrifying and exhilarating.... In a "let's jump into a lake full of crocodiles and see what happens" kind of way.
I will try! I have been so busy with our company lately it leaves little time for anything else. I am about to start another stop motion project that may be quite intense. I might have to hire some extra animators and prop builders, but we'll see.
You know, people keep saying "Yeah but it will never be perfect, or x, y z etc" I say just wait a couple of months... or a few weeks. One think the video generators can't seem to get right yet (because they don't get enough training on the individual) is the way their teeth look and the way the muscles work in an individual's mouth. The mouths always look wrong. I wouldn't put it past the AI to soon be able to look at the skin of the face and be able to calculate all of the loose and tight muscles. We are truly in a weird time.
Yep. We are truly screwed in the near future. It may end up being a transitional time leading to a true "Star Trek" style utopia where people spend their lives pursuing happiness. But how will the super rich and greedy deal psychologically with not having more than the rest of us. They will go down fighting tooth and nail.
Okidoki, I sent you a (lengthy) DM on Discord, please have a look Rick! ;-)