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There's actually a lot of cool science stuff that AI is doing, it just isn't in the public eye.
Absolutely. Bio-chemistry, astrophysics, imaging, diagnostic testing...
Everybody is stuck on how it can make text/video/pictures which is neat but not nearly as useful. This will just be used for porn/scams/ads overwhelmingly.
However, parsing huge datasets and extrapolating impossible to detect patterns and subsequent correlation of seemingly unrelated phenomena is going to be lit ๐ฅ
ML for recognizing trends is awesome. AI for generating porn of celebrities with weird hands is not.
Absolutely, but also when you consider ethical challenges (copyright, livelihood of artists), sustainability challenges (energy use) etc. The use cases that you describe are not nearly as controversial as LLMs like ChatGPT.
Issue with that, that's not as cool as generating AI slop from a few words, especially for boomers, who always thought art should be just a weekend hobby, done purely for the sake of self-enjoyment, all because art doesn't involve getting muddy, oily, or getting "cool workplace injuries", thus it's a fake job.
That's an oddly specific example. I'm guessing you could possibly be an employed artist who is not muddy, oily or ever had a "cool workplace injury".
I'm working for a company that's using it for sheet metal forming, you just upload an STL and robots make it out of a blank sheet.
Eventually we won't need dies anymore (good for environment) and will make sheet metal more efficiently (Jevons paradox territory, but we need to reduce total consumption anyways).
IMHO we should have Pigouvian pollution taxes and then let the market decide which ideas are worth pursuing.