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Comment Colour me impressed. Movie studios dead (Score 3, Insightful) 86

Uau, That's a long trip from Final Fantasy! I suppose it's a matter of time till all movie studios are dead, or at least so changed as the newspapers with the advent of the Internet. It's the same situation, democratization of publishing, If everybody can make a film by writing a prompt, then all you need is the script writer, really. Well, and a film editor, probably.

On the plus side, perhaps we'll see some original content now. On the minus side, I guess the 2030's Oscars ceremony will sport no glamour actresses on the red carpet, but geeks holding laptops. Instead of "who's you dress from?" (Valentino) you'll have "who's your bot from?" (OpenAI's "Filminator" with some continuity tweaks from a recent startup, you wouldn't know it)

I wonder if you could prompt it just "Take 'A Tale of Two Cities' and make a film from it"., and what would happen.

Comment General confusion (Score 2) 182

I believe that the concepts around human intelligence are so diffuse that any discussion about them is futile. But one thing is clear for me, that we we speak of AI, of real AI I mean, we are really talking about a Human Simulator. We want HAL 9000, something that can talk to us but at the same time can integrate and understand all knowledge. The problem, that was clear to Mr Clarke too, is that for simulating a human we have to simulate its emotions, that comprise 90% of our acts.

Why am I writing this post? I get no benefit from it. I do it for some kind of vicarious social validation, meaningful only if you are a social ape. No machine will ever understand why we do most of what we do, and it's doubtful that if we manage to create such a machine, it will have a practical use. But we don't want practical uses, we want a buddy that can answer all questions. No matter that the questions themselves have no meaning.

Comment I get all the critics to this new paint... (Score 1) 222

Sure this tech is not perfect. But think about the inner satisfaction when you come back to the car, midday in a hot summer, with the sun hitting like a hammer, knowing that the car will be burning inside, but now knowing that at least it will have charged a whole lot in that couple of hours.

Comment There's the rub of it (Score 1) 42

For example, EMMA couldn't incorporate 3D sensor inputs from lidar or radar, which Waymo said was "computationally expensive." And it could only process a small amount of image frames at a time.

I've always thought that, when truly autonomous driving was developed, it would probably be too computationally expensive to be useful, either by the expensive hw needed or the amount of energy needed, or both.

Comment Of course not (Score 3, Interesting) 170

In fact, kids need learn nothing at all nowadays, except talking, perhaps. Talking optional when better neuronal connections are developed. They will ask whatever they need to their all-knowing devices. Similar devices will plow the earth, make everything in automated factories, and manage the society. Of course they will repair themselves, as having a person asking for what to do at every step would be too inefficient.

The life of the kids will be just a journey of learning to ask the right questions.

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