I'm not a native English speaker and youtube was very bad at transcribing videos, now thanks to YouTube speech-to-text model and translation model powered by neural networks the subtitles are actually very good and people can enjoy the content on how "The AI revolution is rotten to the core" from around the world, thanks AI!
My whole job is generative AI research at this point, so I am obviously biased. And yes there were quite a number of technical points that fall flat for me, like the stuff about hidden layers, the comparison with photography (you can color grade AI art in Photoshop too), the usual "no understanding because it just outputs the next word" argument, the time wasted by focusing on short-term technical limitations, etc. But despite all that I was very compelled by the discussion of how AI tech is primarily being used to further squeeze everything enjoyable out human life and maximize corporate profits. It helps put words to my growing dissatisfaction with how my field is being monetized. And it isn't enough to say that people will keep doing enjoyable stuff as a hobby. I made a career out of doing creative programming work that I love, and will really struggle to sleep at night if I help to take that opportunity away from someone else.
More hand-wringing over technological progress, as usual.<p>Are artists going to stop producing art, or will they use AI as a tool to produce entirely new styles and forms of art?
I expected this to be a criticism of OpenAI and the whole generative AI ilk, and while that's somewhat related, this video mostly focuses on the shortcomings of AI generated worlds, art, content and dialogue in the popular Minecraft game. The speaker does delve a bit into the shortcomings of generative and other AI as applied to the real world as well later though.
Honestly if using AI to summarize this hour+ video means being able to efficiently grok the content without suffering through dozens of mindnumbing YT ads, then it's not really that rotten.
It’s really simple. If you want to sell your art, AI can produce it for you. If you like making real art AI can recommend which watercolors, brushes and clay to buy. Art as a product will be the domain of AI. The fun and awesomeness of standing in your cluttered atelier and creating something with your hands is for humans, enjoy.