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I can't think of any tech with this kind of crazy yearly investment in infrastructure with no success stories.

Maybe it's because I find writing easy, but I find the text generation broadly useless except for scamming. The search capabilities are interesting but the falsehoods that come from LLM questions undermine it.

The programming and visual art capabilities are most impressive to me... but where's the companies making killings on those? Where's the animation studio cranking out Pixar-quality movies as weekly episodes?

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The animation stuff is about to happen but not there yet.

I work in the industry and I know that ad agencies are already moving onto AI gen for social ads.

For VFX and films the tech is not there yet, since OpenAI believes they can build the next TikTok on AI (a proposition being tested now) and Google is just being Google - building amazing tools but with little understanding (so far) of how to deploy them on the market.

Still Google is likely ahead in building tools that are being used (Nano Banana and Veo 3) while the Chinese open source labs are delivering impressive stuff that you run locally or increasingly on a rented H100 on the cloud.

> Where's the animation studio cranking out Pixar-quality movies as weekly episodes?

Check out Neural Viz. Unthinkable for one guy without AI. And we're still in the Geocities stage of this stuff.

A non-Pixar animation studio, with presumably a >10x lower budget than Pixar itself, cranking out weekly Pixar movies would be like >1000x acceleration. And indeed, that's not a thing yet for animated movies. The example I gave shows that it's already quite a big X, though.

You can easily google "generative AI success stories" and read about them.

There are always a few comments that make it seem like LLMs have done nothing valuable despite massive levels of adoption.

I realize this is a cheap shot but

> You can easily google "generative AI success stories" and read about them.

notice you suggested asking Google and not chatgpt.

I don't understand why you think this is important to mention.

Search engines are better at certain tasks than others.

If I said should FLY to Spain is it a cheap shot against sailing because I didn't mention it?

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