> the only model that legitimately passed the Giraffe prompt.
10 years ago I would have considered that sentence satire. Now it allegedly means something.
Somehow it feels like we’re moving backwards.
10 years ago I would have considered that sentence satire. Now it allegedly means something.
Somehow it feels like we’re moving backwards.
I don't understand why everyone isn't in awe of this. This is legitimately magical technology.
We've had 60+ years of being able to express our ideas with keyboards. Steve Jobs' "bicycle of the mind". But in all this time we've had a really tough time of visually expressing ourselves. Only highly trained people can use Blender, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. whereas almost everyone on earth can use a keyboard.
Now we're turning the tide and letting everyone visually articulate themselves. This genuinely feels like computing all over again for the first time. I'm so unbelievably happy. And it only gets better from here.
Every human should have the ability to visually articulate themselves. And it's finally happening. This is a major win for the world.
I'm not the biggest fan of LLMs, but image and video models are a creator's dream come true.
In the near future, the exact visions in our head will be shareable. We'll be able to iterate on concepts visually, collaboratively. And that's going to be magical.
We're going to look back at pre-AI times as primitive. How did people ever express themselves?
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams
* I'm into genealogy. Naturally, most of my fellow genealogists are retired, often many years ago, though probably also above average in mental acuity and tech-savviness for their age. They LOVE generative AI.
* My nieces, and my cousin's kids of the same age, are deeply into visual art. Especially animation, and cutesy Pokemon-like stuff. They take it very seriously. They absolutely DON'T like AI art.
The internet is an amazing technology, yet its biggest consumption is a mix of ads, porn and brain rot.
We all have cameras in our pockets yet most people use them for selfies.
But if you look closely enough, the incredible value that comes from these examples more than makes up for all the people using them in a “boring” way.
And anyway who’s the arbiter of boring?
It’s just a tool. It’s not a world-changing tech. It’s a tool.