The operative word in hype cycles is always will. Blockchains will revolutionize this, web3 will revolutionize that, stable diffusion will do this, ChatGPT will do that.
Talk to me about what it actually has changed and you may convince me.
Talk to me about what it actually has changed and you may convince me.
* I already talk to my phone to type more than I actually type on it. This is finally made my phone roughly as efficient as my laptop for simply inputting English text.
* An artist named darknut worked for years in the Morrowind community to retexture Morrowind and creating a new higher resolution texture pack. ESRGAN upscaling lapped his work in a matter of weeks. I love his work, but the change in efficiency was a change in kind.
* I haven't done it myself, but I've heard countless reports of programmers simply asking for a program with a given set of specifications to be written, and having the resulting source code available seconds later.
* I wanted character sheet portraits for a role-playing scenario I was creating, and stable diffusion was able to generate half a dozen portraits in about a half an hour that were perfectly suitable. This just wasn't possible a year ago.
I never got on the web3 hype train, but I'm already finding AI useful, and I don't expect it to play a less useful role over time.
- I started using it as a programming co-tutor, it's amazing. Not perfect, but good enough. https://twitter.com/any_other_you/status/1607116905919152128
- I could use it as is for customer service chatbots if I could trust it (hard nut to crack, but I see it coming. You.com already has a nice factual chatbot that usually delivers sources to its claims.
- I use it to sum articles or rephrase silly "philosophers speak" to me
- It could easily write business email fluff for me (just don't need that too much luckily)
Non ChatGPT:
- Even plain intent detection is great to replace these "press n for X" machines on the phone
- audio clean-up is amazing ("imagines" a HQ recording from a noisy one)
- neural speech to text is amazing (the tik-talk voice is a good popular example, but there are even better ones)
- Protein folding
- Image classification for science and military
- Image generation is amazing for projects that traditionally employ concept artists. Like a mood board ( https://www.thefilmfund.co/what-is-a-mood-board-and-are-they... ) but better.
there is a lot...
On the art front, every single piece of art that I see is bad. Not bad like a human not being able to draw, but bad in a different but still obvious (to me, at least) way.
On a personal front, I had a lot of fun generating funny pictures based on inside jokes with my friends a few weeks ago, but lately it barely makes us smile. I think the novelty is wearing off, so even that is gone.
Ultimately, it's not going to matter what I think, enough people think this is good content that it will be flooding the internet soon. It's all so tiresome.
Uncanny valley.