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First time I got the "there's something special happening here" vibe was seeing the early "hallucination" images some years ago. Some examples here: https://www.businessinsider.com/these-trippy-images-show-how...

My wild guess for the next 5 years is that we'll have Stable Diffusion with the ability to create NeRF scenes.

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I wasn't able to realize the scale of the shift that's about to happen back then.

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I just remembered another example of hearing about something that seemed like pure magic:

Reconstructing what a person is seeing out of their fMRI scan (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo

That’s most interesting aspect to me is that 100s of thousands of people were all likely aware of the developments in the field, but few actually knew what was coming down the road in the near future. It’s these types of gaps I find the most interesting when looking at technologies like this.

What is coming though?

I'm right there with you. Google's DeepDream I think?

That first week of DeepDream images flooding the web showed me that someone had snuck a can of worms onto the table, and while they had graciously not opened it immediately, they had maybe cracked the lid just a bit

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