Ryan's talking about the huge changes going on behind the scenes w/ AI. Most only dabble or are vaguely aware. Many have zero clue that AI is anything but "bad fantasy photo generation". They've never looked up the definition of "SINGULARITY". Short thread of my thoughts:
We've been conditioned to think about AI our whole lives--in the west--with sci-fi like HAL, (the AI computer voice from "2001: A Space Oddessy"), or with the deep fantasy speculation of guys like Phillip K Dick (Bladerunner), or William Gibson (Neuromancer). & Don't forget DUNE.
Much of the media that's been provided, (mostly fiction), has a dystopian vibe to it. Like Terminator. The AI computers & their mechanical robots are going to take over the world & we will become their slaves. It probably won't go this route in reality...
But it will change everything--forever. It already has. They say that AI was 1st mentioned in a workshop organized by John McCarthy in 1956 at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. & this makes me suspect it's been around even longer, as a concept.
I find it interesting & super annoying that they are forcing it on us in a soft way. Have you noticed on Facebook Mobile? How they put the little "AI Helper" buttons right where your muscle memory is already programmed to click? So you open it on accident--
--and then have to go back--and re-click just to add a photo & what not? WELL THAT'S NO ACCIDENT. And it's also dishonest. We've been deeply conditioned to accept deception and dishonesty because of the world of marketing and advertising.
& currently they've focused that "slight of hand trick" on ramping up AI. The put the buttons where you HAVE to click. They use ALL the pictures & text on the internet to build & feed their models, & With little or no repercussions. It's unavoidable. Forced under your nose.
And really that's all just surface level dialectical garbage. Most people don't have the attention or intelligence to truly consider what these systems are currently capable. And that prevents them from considering how much bigger & 'all pervasive' it will become.
Vast majority of people don't know what an "order of magnitude" really means. They don't know how fast we're all traveling in this new AI direction. (It's 10x times a gazillion). They've tied it into everything. Did you notice how often the chat bot and phone prompt are AI?
...well it's only gonna keep on going. the post that Ryan shared is not an account I'm familiar with. but the graphics he's sharing are trying to inform you--the AI is getting so "smart" so fast--it's gonna undercut almost every single industry on earth.
The 'secret nerds' on "Mt Olympus" are designing a system that will allow them to replace almost all human labor as we know it. I think Ryan's right--and that it will take many more years than some are predicting--but, it's still coming.
...and lately they're making it impossible to ignore. It's not a coincidence, or by accident, that they're shuffling buttons, and flooding the feeds w/ bad art, and suddenly encouraging people to "sign up" at a low price...
Or even use it for FREE. (Did you notice that GROK & META AI are now free?) I did. Their marketing strategy worked on me. I'm not an early adopter or someone who needs to pay for AI just yet... But making it FREE was just enough to get me to start experimenting. "tinkering".
And it's amazing. And horrifying. And I have so many questions and complaints. I didn't really say much here... Just a thread to consider "the vibe of the thing". What do you think about the whole AI roll out these last few years? Or maybe you don't care? Or you're not sure?
...maybe you should just ask the AI?
✅--I went back and added some random captures of my digital art from my Insta. It's all for sale if you just ask. Oh! & also... I was wrong. I do pay for the program that helps me make all this art. And it uses quite a bit of AI for many of it's functions.) "So it goes"
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