I just love how we were all theorizing that to make a computer that could "think", it would take vast resources, and here we have programs that can reason in basically the computational power that we carry around in our pocket. Just mindblowing.
At this rate, the Nintendo Switch 4 won't have any games; you'll just punch in the style of game you like and tweak it to your heart's content. Same for your TV - Romance movies will probably be the easiest to automate first (and, if done well, would be the only necessary genre to sell that TV like hotcakes).
Time to tell the kids to become plumbers and electricians; the physical world is not yet conquered.
Edit: Posting too fast: For the complaint about how we need curated experiences, I don't buy it. Hallmark has made a multibillion dollar business on romantic slop, everyone knows it, nobody cares, it's still among the most popular content on Netflix. Look at TikTok's popularity: Super curated but minimal curation in the posts themselves. In the future, I think the prompt will occur after the response, not before: It won't be, "What kind of movie do you want?" It will be, "What did you think of this rom-com, so I can be better next time?"
Even if we assume the tech gets good, this is making a major assumption, which is that users are both capable of, and want to, use AI prompting to create entertainment.
It's like procedural generation in gaming: Minecraft is beloved and wouldn't have worked without it, but it was universally panned when used for procedural quest generation in Skyrim.
The fact that an AI can create content doesn't obviate the desire people have for curated experiences. People still want to talk about Squid Game at the office water cooler.
That's when companies will force the government to provide UBI: it is just an excuse to get more money from governments anyway, while avoiding the revolution.
> Time to tell the kids to become plumbers and electricians; the physical world is not yet conquered.
Hmm, Optimus or Humane, or whatsoever humanoid robots would like to greet you:
Customer: Here is the broken pipe, fix it.
Robot ( with ToT) : "hmm, ok the customer wants to fix the pipe. let me understand the issue ( analyses the video feed ), ok there is a hole. So how can I fix it.....
... ok I can do it in 3 steps: cut the pipe left of hole, cut the pipe right of hole. cut the replacement and using connectors restore the pipe integrity. "
As if cheap multi-modal reasoning won't completely change the nature of blue-collar labor. There isn't a single industry that won't be upturned by this stuff long-term. Most you can do is "be water" and hold onto something that won't rot away (faith for me).
