Little Things That Irk You IX

[Neon Ignition]

An AI Defence Lawyer against and AI Prosecuting Lawyer submitting to an AI Judge decider... that is totally going to happen. It would be more objective and potentially make entire trials on several types of cases take minutes rather than months or years.

Braverman will be looking into AI driven immigration reviewers right now

[Asura]

My current conclusions:

It's so exciting!

We're all so screwed.

Yep, I've been digging into the AI art stuff for months now, because I didn't want to potentially criticise something I didn't understand. The main thing I've been saying, all along, is not to focus on the problems; the "it can't draw hands" side of things. That's all temporary and is coming on in leaps and bounds. I'm already seeing those OpenPose things where people are creating stick-figure meshes and having the AI "draw" the image based on that input, and frankly the results are staggering from a purely technical perspective.

Personally, for art, I feel that the threshold will be crossed when you can animate effectively with it, because presently you can't. You can animate, but you can only make stuff with that dreamlike quality (like that recent Linkin Park video). That recent Corridor Crew video shows the problem, and that required they shot tons of reference footage etc. too which diminished the usefulness (only a bit, but still).

The point at which you can create an animated stick figure, and then ask the AI to animate a character and get a smooth, usable result... That's going to be immensely disruptive as the "cost" of usable animation will drop to a 20th of what it is right now.

[QualityChimp]

An AI Defence Lawyer against and AI Prosecuting Lawyer submitting to an AI Judge decider... that is totally going to happen.

Live footage of an AI Defence Lawyer against an AI Prosecuting Lawyer:

->Open Spoiler<-

[Neon Ignition]

"Bing... animate me a version of Jurassic Bark where Fry is reunited with his dog happily at the end"

[fuse]

About six years ago I went on a quasi-date thing with someone to a futurism lecture and a big part of it and the discussion that followed was on the need for UBI as technology advances. Even with this framing and informed folks leading, there seemed to be a reasonably well-agreed expectation that we had some time still to figure this out, and that while nothing was off the table, creative positions would feel less of the immediate impact. Well, I feel like the latter wasn't the case, that we had much less time than we thought, and more crucially, that we've gotten absolutely nowhere with figuring out how to look after people as this big wave of change comes. We're still so entrenched in Tory austerity that anything even with even a whiff of a social conscience is demonised as being evil commie talk.

These tools have been trained on stolen work to begin with, have incredibly loose ethical boundaries, and are just being handed over to the public in a way that feels very Pandora's box-y. We're only in the early stages, but already entire lines of work are at threat from people who think typing a prompt into a text box makes them a creative. We're now seeing entirely fabricated events, articles, and images coming to prominence, spread quicker and more convincingly than ever before. People saying "look at the fingers!" are missing the point - that the technology is incredible and the kinks will be worked out before you know it, and while I am all in favour of progress, what I don't want to see is society regressing as a result.

[dataDave]

There's no chance for society irrespective of what happens with AI.

[Brad]

You know how humans have forgotten things we used to be able to do? Like how to build the pyramids? Well it irks me that in Star Trek they’ve completely forgotten how to have a computer automatically add a time stamp to log entries, requiring the captain to speak the time stamp before the rest of the log details.

[fishbowlhead]

You know how humans have forgotten things we used to be able to do? Like how to build the pyramids? Well it irks me that in Star Trek they’ve completely forgotten how to have a computer automatically add a time stamp to log entries, requiring the captain to speak the time stamp before the rest of the log details.

Aren’t they just saying that so the audience has a reference point? The computer would surely auto time stamp everything.

[QualityChimp]

April 1st is a chore on any social media.

[kryss]

An AI Defence Lawyer against and AI Prosecuting Lawyer submitting to an AI Judge decider... that is totally going to happen. It would be more objective and potentially make entire trials on several types of cases take minutes rather than months or years.

Braverman will be looking into AI driven immigration reviewers right now

She doesn't need an AI to stamp "rejected" on paperwork.

[wakka]

Aren’t they just saying that so the audience has a reference point? The computer would surely auto time stamp everything.

I think all the star dates are just random. They don’t mean anything. That’s definitely the case in TOS, at least.

[kryss]

I think all the star dates are just random. They don’t mean anything. That’s definitely the case in TOS, at least.

Next Gen onwards had a meaning.

[Asura]

Next Gen onwards had a meaning.

Yeah, I think they do. But admittedly I just always thought they were a jumble of meaningless numbers.

[wakka]

Ah gotcha. I'm a lot more familiar with TOS than any of the rest of it.

[Brad]

I was joking BTW. I know they're saying it for our benefit. I thought it amusing to pretend that I thought that they didn't know how to put timestamps on log entries in the future.