I was the guy in the office that was always neck deep in the new tech stuff.
When I became a professional photographer (a 180 turn from what I was) I loved all the new stuff. In my last big job a few years ago, I was shooting images, pushing a button on my camera and it uploading the image directly to the twitter feed of the client.
My peers looked at me as if I was Harry Potter!
I see AI as an interesting thing. All this talk about limiting it is amusing. That horse is out of the barn and a mile down the road.
The photographer in me looks at this stuff and cringes. My wife is a writer and she is starting to bump up against AI applications, but it’s a race to her retirement.
I wish I could live another 50 years to see how this turns out.
Very good programming.
I tend to look behind the wizard's curtain, which peeves a whole lots of wizards. He and I would chitter-chat about the marketing of AI, and we agreed then that it was being "sold" as more than it currently is. The whole Turing test and Chinese Room measures don't function very well since so many people are easily fooled, and other seem to actually want to be fooled.
But the new graphics manipulation is quite something, and sound manipulation coming in a close second. It suggests "you can't believe you eyes" will be a literal statement. Old matte painting backdrops replaced by CGI and green screen placement and such isn't so much proof of "artificial intelligence." But it surely is "very good programming."
“The photographer in me looks at this stuff and cringes.”
Sure, but on the other hand, it’s like the democratization of art. Lots of people have creative ideas in their head, but they don’t have the skills to actually make that idea visible to others. Now they just describe the idea to the AI, and with a little patience, they can get something that other people can appreciate.
Will that put artists/writers out of a job? Some, but not all of them. Most of the people that will use AI for that probably never would have had money to hire a professional artist or writer in the first place. They would have either done it themselves poorly, or not done it at all. And the AI is still too flawed to be usable for a lot of applications.