Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Propagandhim]

The entire thread is "AI is useless" then all this fearmongering about AI taking over and destroying the world.  Where's that Umberto Eco quote when you need it

I'm ok with AI being "strong and weak" in the sense of it being sometimes poor quality, but also incredibly efficient in time and money so "good enough" for most people

the thing is though it's often not just "good enough" anymore, you can get results that are really high quality and truly unrecognizable as AI, or at least easily obscured as having originated with AI, and it's funny to watch the sour grapes from people who decided in advance that they were going to hate anything you showed them

*posts amazing video, highlighting how futuristic it feels that you can make this million dollar effects shot yourself on your own computer for zero dollars*

"that looks like shit"

Yeah, and beyond generative AI for creative work, it has fundamentally transformed how people in certain fields approach certain problem solving tasks.  Like, with economic modeling, you can rapidly test multiple scenarios with complex mathematical models that would have previously taken days or weeks to compute.  You can run simulations more efficiently with smarter elasticity functions, regression analyses with dozens of variables, with different policy conditions - when you have a tool that is capable of inferential analysis you can change and develop ideas and modify them on the fly and then add other complexities on top of those conditions while maintaining the equilibrium of the whole thing..across thousands of permutations...then you can go back and isolate those variables and conditions. This sort of analysis takes a long fucking time and these tools are indespensible now.  It maintains mathematical rigor - you can test to see how effective it is, and the value is there.   I have friends who are vets at coding that use AI every day, all day now in some capacity - at the very least to check their work.  This is a stepchange akin to the consumer internet burgeoning in the mid/late 90s.  Yes the internet existed before then, but it wasn't until the mid to late 90s where things rocketed off and people peered into the future every single day.  Things were exciting and changing so fast. 

Also, and this is what the most important thing about AI is:  I want Street Fighter 3/KOF-13 level sprite animation to be financially viable in games again.   Eventually these tools will become so good that artists will be able to offload an enormous amount of work while they pour all their efforts into other parts of the art development.  Then they'll be doin thangs.   With they whole ass.