The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core

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  • Опубликовано: 4 май 2024
  • ko-fi.com/jimmcgee
    GPT2 Says: Jimmy McGee's new RUclips video , "Tall, skinny, and fast : The story of the man who invented a new kind of shoe," is here! The video features many quotes from other people 's opinions about Jimmy 's shoe, but also reveals some personal thoughts about the man himself, especially his own shoes.
    No idea why the audio is so bad for the first 15 minutes. I have five cheap mics instead of one good one, they just do whatever they want. It gets really good after that though.
    Vibez and video sources: • AI Stuff
    Script, notes, and text source (89 of them!): www.coolgames.zip/
    Chapters
    00:00:00 Spoiler Warning
    00:00:20 Minecraft Odyssey - Exploring Gameplay Systems Chronologically
    00:03:39 AI is not magic
    00:09:09 AI is not free
    00:15:10 AI is not going away
    00:30:00 AI is not creative
    00:42:53 AI is not intelligent
    00:50:28 AI is not objective
    01:04:24 AI is another cruel algorithm
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Комментарии • 11 тыс.

  • @JimmyMcG33
    @JimmyMcG33  7 месяцев назад +1526

    something's wrong with my copy of minecraft
    People asked for it, so here's the music from my videos:
    owenc.bandcamp.com/album/jim-mcgee-pt-1

    • @EggBastion
      @EggBastion 7 месяцев назад +77

      _"People asked for it, so here's the music from my videos"_
      AWW YEAH!!!

    • @zmmnaogn
      @zmmnaogn 7 месяцев назад +31

      bought the album, thanks for the great stuff

    • @user-eq1rn1lr9m
      @user-eq1rn1lr9m 7 месяцев назад +14

      Oof, that was a HUGE gap between "free-er the market - free-er the people" and the socialist message at the end. I honestly thought you had a political schizophrenia with "we should regulate the market, but free market is actually better, as my [totally not government enforced] mantra says". Good job man! Really hq vid you got there.

    • @drelspells
      @drelspells 7 месяцев назад +55

      @@user-eq1rn1lr9m your listening comprehension is so faulty lmfao. Wanna share time stamps of parts you feel contradict each other ?

    • @JimmyMcG33
      @JimmyMcG33  7 месяцев назад +79

      @@user-eq1rn1lr9m bruh

  • @EggBastion
    @EggBastion 7 месяцев назад +10691

    _"The irony that we're automating the production of art instead of the jobs everybody hates shouldn't be lost on us."_ the fact that I and all my cynicism didn't cath this 'til you said it, leaves me feeling all different kinds of bad

    • @emanamen7295
      @emanamen7295 7 месяцев назад +336

      To be fair I think those jobs that we dont like are the ones that most of the population are employed in so if all of a sudden they wanted automate all the unwanted jobs people would be in uproar under the threat of unemployment by automation. But I dont think people will care very much if its just a sliver of the job market thats being automated such as artist , this is also compounded by the fact that more people benifit from ai art than some higher ups that benifit from making somthing like autonomous machine that makes production more efficient.

    • @maths4297
      @maths4297 7 месяцев назад +561

      For the average person using AI to make art I suspect it's a kind of creative expression they didn't feel able to indulge in before. Art is hard and I've known many people who've given up on it. I don't hold AI use against these folks.
      On the other hand, people and companies who are using AI to save a buck and cut out artists? Fuck them. It's already difficult enough to support yourself making art.

    • @dreyri2736
      @dreyri2736 7 месяцев назад +159

      It's almost like full automation is an unrealistic sci fi meme and this video never actually talks about that aspect other than stating stuff that everyone already knows and getting angry at generated images as if the ai is taking away jobs from creators (its not).
      Really, so long as a robot cannot even fold a piece of fabric that is given to it, something that proves to be exceptionally hard to do, a chimp will be more useful in a factory than an AI.
      Looks like we are all just going to have to keep struggling in this process we call life like our ancestors before us. Maybe that's not so bad.

    • @bluester7177
      @bluester7177 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@dreyri2736but It is taking jobs from creators, there already book covers who have been done by a human previously and now are AI generated, brand design, anime backgrounds, commissioned art, there already stories of people training Ai on the Art of an artists the previously commissioned and in the future it will take more jobs, specially entry level jobs, I agree there probably won't be a fully outmated future any time soon, but automation always have a downside and people often struggle to pivot and sometimes can't after their jobs are outomated out of existence and capitalists are always trying to increase their profits, so if they can fire some employees to cut cost even if AI isn't perfect, they will do it, they already done with most of phone and online costumer service and it's awful.

    • @coreyander286
      @coreyander286 7 месяцев назад +15

      I'm alarmed by this use of "cath" as a verb that I haven't previously come across.
      "The fact that I and all my cynicism didn't"... catheter this? What?

  • @davidfirth
    @davidfirth 4 месяца назад +2989

    The future is bland.

    • @circleinforthecube5170
      @circleinforthecube5170 4 месяца назад +89

      its already been bland tbh, seen those ugly 2010s gray on gray interior design styles or those hideous 60s concrete british council towers? but i feel like even if ai takes over artists will still prevail, its not a simple industry like many other lost positions, its a exhibition of someones creativity.

    • @L4chlanC
      @L4chlanC 4 месяца назад +66

      David Firth speaking nothing but facts

    • @alexhamilton3522
      @alexhamilton3522 4 месяца назад +53

      Well at least you've got your rusty spoons.

    • @vilvd3934
      @vilvd3934 4 месяца назад +4

      David fifth 😂😂😂😂

    • @_nutcracker
      @_nutcracker 4 месяца назад +7

      And spoonless

  • @LordThanathos
    @LordThanathos 3 месяца назад +545

    "In a free market, when something bad happens to you, you have to be punished". Spot on.

    • @snail64
      @snail64 2 месяца назад

      where in the video does it say that

    • @erwinl7794
      @erwinl7794 2 месяца назад

      01:06:49@@snail64

    • @supermariostar1234
      @supermariostar1234 2 месяца назад +7

      @@snail64 1:06:50

    • @hollyjaw3303
      @hollyjaw3303 Месяц назад +11

      In a non-free market, when everything is normal you have to be punished.

    • @thepinkestpigglet7529
      @thepinkestpigglet7529 Месяц назад +25

      ​@@hollyjaw3303 in a society driven by money you have to be punished

  • @JeredtheShy
    @JeredtheShy 3 месяца назад +327

    Somebody pointed out that AI is perfectly tuned to appeal to the "idea guy", you know, the obnoxious person who says hey, I have an idea for a book, how about you write it, and we split the money? He values the writer's work so little that he thinks you're going to give him half the money after you do absolutely all the labor to make his pedestrian idea real. AI finally gives him the slave he's always wanted, or promises to, and it's a big reason why the uptake has been so swift, despite the AI being pretty bleh at most things.

    • @shadowsketch926
      @shadowsketch926 3 месяца назад +25

      you just managed to formulate my thoughts for me (which considering the topic, is ironic)
      this has always been bothering me, as there's plenty of people with ideas, but very few who actually take the time to implement them, and even less people
      who learn to implement them better with each iteration.
      that same thought process also explains why its so popular.

    • @vaiyt
      @vaiyt 3 месяца назад +53

      Pretty much every AI bro I've met on the internet so far was an idea guy. And it's funny how they flip flop between "this will make artists' skills irrelevant" and "this proompt took skil, praise me"

    • @CyberDyneSystems77
      @CyberDyneSystems77 3 месяца назад +11

      @@vaiyt Exactly 😂 I've prompted for hours, im a true artist

    • @matusjansta
      @matusjansta 3 месяца назад +18

      But that's exactly how eNtRePrNeUrShIp works. U have an "idea" and a bunch of money to make ppl make sth actually useful out of it, then pocket most of the profit. The ideas bro has only one thing that separates him from the Elon Musks of the world: he's not already a millionaire.

    • @lukew6725
      @lukew6725 3 месяца назад +2

      If George Lucas had AI, would the prequel trilogy have turned out better? 🤔

  • @Kyfow
    @Kyfow 7 месяцев назад +3460

    I'm a huge AI skeptic, and as a software engineer, that's not an easy line to walk. The best sell that I've seen for AI, is that it will function as a copilot for all the shitty, high time consumption, low impact tasks we need to accomplish on our day to day. It shouldn't take away anyone's job, it should give them ability to focus on more meaningful aspects of their job.
    When you examine that more closely, you realize that it means that AI is going to take away the jobs of low level employees, that need to start off as basic, entry level people and work their way up to challenging, advanced problems. Where will this leave the industry in 20 years, when the junior count has declined so drastically that there will be no supply of expert level people? Is the bottom line more important than helping someone grow as a professional and enriching society as a whole? Rhetorical question, obviously the answer is yes.
    It sucks, on a personal level, to have to walk between raindrops to avoid unethical, shitty high tech companies. Even companies that try to make the world a better place might end up doing it in the wrong way.

    • @playerslotavailable3810
      @playerslotavailable3810 7 месяцев назад +147

      I never understood this criticism of A.I. I mean farm equipment replaced 90% of farmhands but I don't think people are complaining about tractors

    • @Kyfow
      @Kyfow 7 месяцев назад +353

      @@playerslotavailable3810 I don't see any industry growing in terms of demand to such a huge scope that it'll allow the current amount of jobs to stay the same while also providing massive automation tools. It's just not the same as farming, which needed to be automated to allow for humanity to survive in scale.

    • @sxnorthrop
      @sxnorthrop 7 месяцев назад +55

      @@KyfowThe printing press.

    • @Kyfow
      @Kyfow 7 месяцев назад +179

      @@sxnorthrop Do you really think that there will be such a massive increase in demand for production, that it'd go in line with the increased productivity that'll happen in the AI revolution? I just don't see it. I'll be happy to be proven wrong.

    • @sxnorthrop
      @sxnorthrop 7 месяцев назад +62

      ​@@Kyfow I think I may have misunderstood your original point. I thought we were comparing technology that created a staggering transition in the economy due to it's demand. That, if looked at consistently, would show that society had a very short "grief" period for the countless lost jobs and livelihoods of illuminators and copyists (binders, bookmakers, etc.). Same will be true for ML (in my opinion). That being said there's really not enough data for anyone to make a confident assertion that ML will have the same or comparable impact. I was simply providing a hypothetical comparison to something that showed that the "bottom line [was] more important than helping someone grow as a professional and enriching society as a whole [through creative expression]", and yet today we don't think twice about how it affected multiple generations of people who experienced turmoil as a result. Every pivotal moment in history has some groundbreaking technology or discovery that was never thought possible before and it mostly ends up just making us better at what we already did before (not commenting on whether that's right or wrong ethically).
      TL;DR, I'm using a past example, not a current. The printing press is a perfect example of technology that destroyed lots of livelihoods (and was driven forward in-part by 'money hungry business moguls') but we don't care about it at all. It created a shift in society comparable to something like the AI revolution would create.

  • @backoffpeer
    @backoffpeer 7 месяцев назад +4847

    The AI therapy tool/friend/girlfriend stuff really gets to me. Our most fundamental needs are being exploited at every angle.

    • @Box-O-Soldier
      @Box-O-Soldier 7 месяцев назад +626

      I genuinely never thpught there were many people THIS desperate.
      Fuck, I'm lonely and possibly depressed as all hell and I would never stoop to something this... sad. Dehumanised. *Artificial.*
      The fact the market for this exists alone is depressing...

    • @backoffpeer
      @backoffpeer 7 месяцев назад +256

      @@Box-O-Soldier It's super depressing man. I made an oath to my self I'd never get that low. Best thing we can do is keep ourselves busy I guess

    • @Box-O-Soldier
      @Box-O-Soldier 7 месяцев назад +176

      @@backoffpeer Nay, the best thing we can do is hold ourselves to a standard of our own choosing, keep our "spine" and integrity intact.
      I just wish that more people chose this instead of brainless complacency.

    • @retardedfishfrogs1
      @retardedfishfrogs1 7 месяцев назад +155

      @@Box-O-Soldier I'm the type of guy that watched Blade Runner 2049 and thought to myself "Dang! I wish I had a robot girlfriend." ngl life is bad enough I would buy that shit

    • @pishposh3306
      @pishposh3306 7 месяцев назад +66

      Yep. I believe there's an AI service out there that charges quite a bit of money for a chance to chat up with AI, it's so scummy.
      At best I'd really only ever use AI like this for fun and leisure. I'm fortunate to already have people in my life to connect to, but not everyone has that luxury. . .

  • @beastological
    @beastological 2 месяца назад +126

    on the "democratizing art" point, taking it to mean that ai is creating equal grounds for all to participate in the creation of art, the real phenomenon is that people's access to the *products* of art is being made more equal. it's a very cynical view- one which erases the concepts of artistic process, of honing craft, of exploring one's own tastes and philosophies and the history of their chosen medium, of journeying to one's most authentic style of expression. it views these not as rituals of growth and development and expansion, but as mere hurdles which should be dodged as efficiently as possible to reach *the thing* that can then be shown off or sold or whatever. meanwhile, the grander issue of so many people lacking access to the pursuit of art due to whatever socioeconomic constraints may be restricting them gets left by the wayside while ai parades itself around as some heroic facsimile of a solution to the dismal lives of every overworked person who dreams to just have enough time and money to meaningfully access and practice any sort of craft

    • @josec.6394
      @josec.6394 Месяц назад +17

      I couldn't have said it better myself. The point of art is the journey and the communication of ideas, not the result and profit.

    • @LutraLovegood
      @LutraLovegood Месяц назад +1

      You can still have the journey with AI art, it helped me a lot personally

    • @wasd____
      @wasd____ 29 дней назад +17

      @@LutraLovegood No you can't.

    • @danilo071983
      @danilo071983 26 дней назад

      Why not? Can't u still do it uniquely?

    • @wasd____
      @wasd____ 26 дней назад +19

      @@danilo071983 Because handing off the process and the journey to let AI do it for you is the definition of skipping the journey, not a way of having the journey.

  • @annaquay4183
    @annaquay4183 3 месяца назад +52

    This grey porridge is delicious.
    How is your grey porridge?
    This grey porridge is delicious.

  • @danpatterson8009
    @danpatterson8009 6 месяцев назад +2559

    The danger is not that AI will become sentient and rebel against humans, but that it will be applied as though it were capable of human judgment when it is not. "The AI did it" will become the go-to excuse for all manner of human incompetence and deviousness, just as the magical "computer error" of fifty years ago.

    • @theemperorstarwarslegends8075
      @theemperorstarwarslegends8075 5 месяцев назад +15

      Y2K

    • @danielblank9917
      @danielblank9917 5 месяцев назад +22

      That is a danger and the danger that AI will become sentient is also absolutely a danger

    • @flametitan100
      @flametitan100 5 месяцев назад +111

      ​@@danielblank9917 They're two different dangers, and one is vastly more immediate a concern. While it is important to learn how AI algorithms reach the decisions they do from their sampling data so we don't accidentally make a sentient AI with unintended behaviours, it's mostly a hypothetical pre-emptive problem. We have no idea if or when a truly sentient AI will be built.
      On the other hand, people trying to offload culpability onto non-sentient AI is a real problem we already see.

    • @Jonas-Seiler
      @Jonas-Seiler 5 месяцев назад +58

      @@danielblank9917 no, that is literally the least dangerous thing about AI (because it can't happen)

    • @happyduck1
      @happyduck1 5 месяцев назад +14

      ​@@Jonas-SeilerWhere are you taking this confidence from? Do you think it will not happen in a near enough future to care about or do you think it can't happen in principle? Also, AI doesn't need to actually be sentient to be dangerous, being more intelligent than humans is already enough.

  • @completelyferrouschemist6776
    @completelyferrouschemist6776 7 месяцев назад +167

    The more Silicon Valley types say "We want to build systems for humans" makes me feel like they aren't fully human.

  • @Vorpal_Wit
    @Vorpal_Wit 3 месяца назад +410

    I've tried unsuccessfully to express many of these sentiments to friends and co-workers in the recent past. What you have created here is the definitive video to express what I could not quite articulate. Thank you.

    • @rorschach775
      @rorschach775 2 месяца назад

      Could've just asked an AI. I love the irony that all these dick head youtubers who want to be "hated" can't even write a more compelling summary of the threats posed by AI than an AI. And then they have the balls to blame other people for bloated nonsense in a video that is 1.5 hours. Several good points that have been touched on in many other videos but fucking hell man, what an overall waste of time.

    • @BlissBatch
      @BlissBatch 2 месяца назад +25

      Good luck getting your friends to watch a video that's longer than 5 minutes, never mind an hour.

    • @christopherkrause337
      @christopherkrause337 2 месяца назад +8

      Also expressing the sentiment doesn't mean changing minds. For instance, I understand people's concerns and reservations with AI. I understand that it will bring about great harm and that it can be a danger. I really know, and am not even arguing the opposite. I'm saying, I don't care. I want the progress. I want AI to be pushed as far as it can go.

    • @im3phirebird81
      @im3phirebird81 2 месяца назад +6

      A lot of the people are already ready to give up their own mind to become a mindless drone. They think it would take away only the bad and undesirable stuff from them, not seeing that it would take everything and leave them an empty shell, uncapable of thought, emotion, action.... life.

    • @theghostcreator776
      @theghostcreator776 2 месяца назад +20

      ​@@christopherkrause337 you simply do not care about slave labor and the destruction of jobs for millions, got it

  • @dolph1nn
    @dolph1nn 3 месяца назад +163

    "we're at a point where we need to choose between building a world for money to live in, or a world for people to live in"
    damn.
    like, DAMN.

    • @thediplomaticentertainer1785
      @thediplomaticentertainer1785 3 месяца назад +20

      Something big is going to happen, I can feel it. The new American labor movement is ramping up. All I'm saying is that there's a lot of snakes in the grass right now, and it's time the billionaires got bit.

    • @diadetediotedio6918
      @diadetediotedio6918 3 месяца назад +2

      @@thediplomaticentertainer1785
      No, it's not the time for another bloody revolution.

    • @lukew6725
      @lukew6725 3 месяца назад +6

      Saying something deep does not mean that it's true.

    • @whoudini7935
      @whoudini7935 2 месяца назад

      Greed always wins. Greed has been the one true political party for 1000s of years.@@thediplomaticentertainer1785

    • @FrcNeru
      @FrcNeru 2 месяца назад +1

      @@thediplomaticentertainer1785im sure you would have loved january 7th if they had paraded with a hammer and sickle

  • @suddenshadow
    @suddenshadow 7 месяцев назад +946

    We making it outta the president AI voice RUclips videos with this one

    • @leftovernoise
      @leftovernoise 7 месяцев назад +91

      The only good thing to come out of AI is that clip of Joe Biden discussing potent weed

    • @suddenshadow
      @suddenshadow 7 месяцев назад +7

      Much agreed

    • @Toodyslexicforyou
      @Toodyslexicforyou 7 месяцев назад +1

      And doing my research for me

    • @AexisRai
      @AexisRai 7 месяцев назад +22

      Prompt: Write a comment on the topic of "desire to leave behind the current era of formulaic and stale AI generated videos", in a manner that ensures that the comment will get broad recognition and user appeal, by choosing a recently popular snowclone format textual meme and inserting the topic as its variable term.

    • @Toodyslexicforyou
      @Toodyslexicforyou 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@AexisRai sorry m8 gonna need my ai to read that for me

  • @Duskets
    @Duskets 7 месяцев назад +1966

    “With new technology, the line between research and commerce is razor thin, and big companies often use this fact to just ‘manifest destiny’ whenever they want and make us live with the consequences.”
    Jimmy, you cannot hit us with a line that hard less than 10 minutes into the video.

    • @Ilyak1986
      @Ilyak1986 7 месяцев назад +22

      Would you prefer that progress stop in the meantime? What's the AI going to do that's so horrible? Jack up insurance rates when the health insurance industry should be nationalized, and we need more transit and bike infrastructure so that people don't need car insurance anyway?

    • @AR15andGOD
      @AR15andGOD 7 месяцев назад +3

      manifest destiny was an objective good imo.

    • @timspiker
      @timspiker 7 месяцев назад +123

      @@Ilyak1986 Well you automate one thing, then the next thing, then the next and before you know it the only jobs left will be AI maintenance. Not everyone is capable of that, so then you deal with a jobless problem, next a homeless problem and next a society collapsing problem. Even if AI could eventually think for itself, we will never get there because the creator's society will collapse before we can get there. Ironically AI is not the problem, but the missuse of AI trough human hands and corporate greed... That is the problem.

    • @realgeorgewbush
      @realgeorgewbush 7 месяцев назад +80

      ​@@Ilyak1986We could you know, demand more social responsibility from corporations and politicians who allow them free reins

    • @TheDoomBlueShell
      @TheDoomBlueShell 7 месяцев назад +70

      @@Ilyak1986 "What's the AI going to do that's so horrible?"
      Just some things that AI already done:
      If you know how photoshop already was a problem in the past for creating fake images that were used and abused by fake news you will understand that AI image generation will be this but 1000 times worse because anyone can put the name of a real person there and generate many images that to most people will be a real photo, if AI was ethical it wouldn't generate images of humans at all because to surprise of no one is already being used for malicious end, to basic porn bots to revenge porn (and if you go to the underbelly even have the "great" children variety that already trying to push as normal and ok because no kid are being harmed).
      AI misinformation makes hard to find true sources and is destroying Google* and is already being deadly with the misinformation because has books about mushrooms with the wrong information so people that buy it can end up eating poisonous mushrooms and the one AI from a supermarket that made a recipe of a deadly gas as good ways to clean the house.
      *Look up "how many african countries start with K" on google and now remember that most people only read the first result

  • @omfgacceptmyname
    @omfgacceptmyname 2 месяца назад +142

    ive noticed over time how much contempt regular people seem to feel for art and artists in general.

    • @user-wp5no6cn2b
      @user-wp5no6cn2b 2 месяца назад +9

      I'm glad

    • @DAG_42
      @DAG_42 2 месяца назад +54

      At least partially comes from not knowing what art is... Most people enjoy "nice things"... Like a nice looking car, nice looking house, nice looking clothes, good music, inspiring movie... The list is endless. All of those involve or are entirely art

    • @grafplaten
      @grafplaten 2 месяца назад +56

      it is easier for them to adopt an attitude of contempt than to admit their lack of ability to comprehend art.

    • @Goggalor1990
      @Goggalor1990 2 месяца назад +17

      I'm an artist and I feel contempt for haughty, smug artists all the time.

    • @FrcNeru
      @FrcNeru 2 месяца назад +11

      @@grafplaten thanks for proving his point, everytime an artist dares to talk or use their platform for anything other than their art, they rapidly showcase how terrible people they are.
      Picasso was perhaps the greatest of all time, and he was pretty terrible too. Most online social media "artists" who live on commissions have the attitude of Picasso and maybe 1% of the skill.
      Everytime you send a death threat to a ML developer I celebrate more and more your imminent downfall. Time to apply for a 9 to 5, "artist".

  • @MrMarttivainaa
    @MrMarttivainaa 3 месяца назад +14

    If I have to hear that fake cheerful ai girl voice or that serious male voice ONE MORE TIME I will SNAP

  • @shingshongshamalama
    @shingshongshamalama 5 месяцев назад +479

    The word "everypony" out of absolutely fucking nowhere hit me like a truck.

  • @bobc2636
    @bobc2636 7 месяцев назад +398

    Maybe we should ask for an "AI" that can do all the tasks of a CEO so we can free up billions in capital by eliminating the need for executives. I wonder how fast laws are past after that hits the market.

    • @ovum
      @ovum 7 месяцев назад

      It's already happening, sort of. Problem is, it's China. We don't know if that one Chinese company that replaced their CEO with an AI (with obviously a human liaison) is real or just a CCP fluff.

    • @jasonmast7769
      @jasonmast7769 7 месяцев назад +85

      imagine co-ops with AI CEOs. As dystopian as that sounds (to be working for a machine), the awesome part might be seeing what a companies pay structure looks like without having to pay the CEO 500 times what the rest of employees make. That seems like automation that could save some money right there.

    • @nathanrocks2562
      @nathanrocks2562 6 месяцев назад +36

      @@jasonmast7769 if it's training data really comes from a bunch of internet comments, it would probably redistribute the wealth among workers immediately.

    • @joshuabacker2363
      @joshuabacker2363 6 месяцев назад +18

      @@nathanrocks2562 It would probably kill them all and replace them for being inefficient. Wealth exists to grow more wealth.

    • @tenhauser
      @tenhauser 6 месяцев назад +25

      CEOs are the grounds keepers of the capital investment upon which companies are founded. CEOs are eliminated all the time. But the only reason CEOs exist is because the people who fund the company to begin with want them. CEOs are not required but desired. No company is forced to have a CEO if the people who fund it don't want one.

  • @Grass-Moss
    @Grass-Moss Месяц назад +6

    This is the best attack on the culture surrounding AI I've seen.
    I'm a computer science major at a large U.S. university, and it feels like everyone I meet is totally apathetic to the consequences of their work. Not incorrectly, they view programming as the easiest way to enter the upper-middle class. Some of them come from poorer families, and most of them are just maintaining their family's generational wealth, but no one talks about their future without bringing up the salary they'll have when they work for a company like Lockheed Martin.
    You point out how close we could be to using AI to build a better world for individuals, if only our efforts were directed in a more altruistic direction, but all anyone stuck at the bottom has to do to make their own life better, to live a life where they aren't eaten alive in a future that *seems* unavoidable, is to help build it. In this way, the profit motive becomes the most insidious evil. If you work for the systems that create profit, you can have a small (though extraordinarily unequal) share of it. If you refuse to, you'll be burdened with massive debt (who needs an ethics major?) or chewed up and spat out.
    As a result, people become the unwitting agents of sociopaths who, in the pursuit of profit, are crystallizing the power structures that force them into that work to begin with. AI is a part of a long history of reifying those structures into something more objective and efficient. As the rate of technological development increases, it won't be long before even the lives of the middle class become dramatically worse during their own lifetimes.
    Amazing video.

    • @kodedart2311
      @kodedart2311 2 дня назад

      The accent on more and more **sociopaths.*** That's what completely freaks me out.

  • @VultureSkins
    @VultureSkins 2 месяца назад +14

    I’ve been seeing a lot of AI on crochet subreddits. I didn’t expect to see AI leeching into those places, but it tracks. There are AI-produced patterns, which is the same kind of thing as AI-produced recipes or anything instructional. At first glance, it fits right in among other patterns, but then you get halfway through the work and Bluey has a mile-high forehead and the pattern quality just begins to degrade. Whoever is training the programs hasn’t been able to make it spit out images with accurate or natural-looking stitches yet, but it’s only a matter of time. Naturally they started with what seems like the most profitable area of crochet, amigurumi. What I’ve seen isn’t them selling a non-existent finished product, though. I haven’t looked but I’m sure there are paywalled AI patterns out there too. The grift for now seems to be getting people to the website and throwing a ton of ads on them, which is already a thing in crochet. There are tons of blogs and aggregation sites. It’s a lot faster, I assume, to cut out the part where you look for patterns to share and to just fill your site with fake ones. Then make more, which all refer to each other. It’s all the same as other content aggregation sites, but it just feels so out of place to me. I mean it all feels out of place, but finding patterns is already a time-consuming task and these AI-based sites add exponentially to the problem while masquerading as a solution in the form of an aggregator site.
    Idk this whole comment is just a rehashing of the same bones of an issue with crochet skin over top haha

  • @filiformis
    @filiformis 7 месяцев назад +377

    19:54
    I'm reminded of the observation that the problem with building a bear-proof container is that the smartest bears and the dumbest humans overlap. We're getting (or already at) a point where this is true for AI.

  • @samb1532
    @samb1532 4 месяца назад +597

    It's good to realize that the "AI is going to fix everything" and the "AI is going to pull a Skynet" opinions are mostly fed from the same sources. So long as you're buying into the premise that AI hitting a singularity moment is the goalpost, you're going to miss the ways its hurting people right now.

    • @T61APL89
      @T61APL89 3 месяца назад

      From people like Zuckerberg, Musk or Altman who practically doubled their wealth during the pandemic but now flush jobs down the drain in the thousands
      but hey u can make porn with midjourney so the techbros will just shrug

    • @petermonaghan3738
      @petermonaghan3738 2 месяца назад +7

      You have got to go through hell before you get to heaven.

    • @whoudini7935
      @whoudini7935 2 месяца назад

      Any tech revolution is going to hurt people. You think computers and the internet have not hurt anybody?

    • @christopherkrause337
      @christopherkrause337 2 месяца назад +4

      I'm all for that progress, whatever it takes.

    • @NoodleArms2004
      @NoodleArms2004 2 месяца назад +20

      ​@@christopherkrause337 Progress? This is 10 steps back

  • @neonsashimidream1075
    @neonsashimidream1075 3 месяца назад +132

    It's cathartic to find a video like this where a serious person, who appears to be one of the very few people left who have achieved/maintained intellectual and emotional maturity, discusses the actual reality of "AI." It often seems like I'm going insane or took some LSD 20 years ago and I haven't come out of it yet, but it seems to me that anyone hearing a Sci-Fi term being thrown around as if it was a real thing would be compelled to actually look into it and do some research. Anyone who does that seriously would discover that it obviously doesn't exist in the same way the " real life 'hover board'" doesn't hover. The truly terrifying part of all of this is the fact of how many people (including people in powerful and important positions) are completely checked out of reality. Where does that lead in 10 or 20 years? Whatever it is, I could only advise people to try not to get too attached to things like competence, basic functions of society, the possibility of rational people in positions of authority, forward mobility, peace, agriculture, civilization, friends, family and/or life.
    Edit: I paused the video to write that comment right before you got into "nudging" and started connecting all the dots. Well done. These are things that have led to horrifying and dystopian changes in almost every aspect of my life that has any attachment to the internet, business, bureaucracy, commerce and so forth. It has been causing me such intense distress over the past 10 years that I could barely begin to express it here. I've only been able to discover bits and pieces of the whole story. Anyway, you've confirmed some suspicions of mine that I was never able to fully articulate. That explains a lot and indicates that, while unlikely, there's still a remote possibility that something could be done about it.

    • @darkwoods7
      @darkwoods7 3 месяца назад +6

      Right with you , man.

    • @ImortalZeus13
      @ImortalZeus13 2 месяца назад +7

      Its disturbing how few people seem to be able to have this discussion maturely, and even less have done the research to understand what exactly they're even talking about.

    • @derekdexheimer3070
      @derekdexheimer3070 Месяц назад +5

      Fantastic comment. This is the kind of lucidity and far-seeing perspective I'd thought computers and technology would usher in when I was much younger and much, much more naive. Now it's clear that the same sociopaths who have enslaved us in so many ways just sucked up, corrupted and infested this promise too. Same as it ever was, since we discovered agriculture and started living in settlements.
      Sociopaths shouldn't be allowed anywhere near positions of power or influence.

  • @williamlabeau1477
    @williamlabeau1477 3 месяца назад +38

    Anyone else notice that the AI generated captions on any shortform video like RUclips Shorts or Instagram Reels is almost always wrong? It's infuriating.

  • @hail_seitan_
    @hail_seitan_ 7 месяцев назад +643

    This video reinforced something ive been feeling for a long time. The internet doesnt seem fun anymore. Everything is funneled into narrow channels of blandness. Its driven a deeper desire for me to unplug as much as possible.

    • @nostalgiatrip7331
      @nostalgiatrip7331 7 месяцев назад +45

      the problem is millions of americans still live in poverty in shit cities . there's not much to do irl where i live due to the heat aline

    • @hail_seitan_
      @hail_seitan_ 7 месяцев назад +79

      @nostalgiatrip7331 I agree but being online doesn't fix any of that, it's just an escape. I escape too so I'm not judging but it just feels less and less enjoyable

    • @shiggium2639
      @shiggium2639 7 месяцев назад

      The internet is going through the same bureaucratic money-wringer that pretty much all public spaces went through before the internet existed. Cafes, parks, sports areas, town squares, etc. now require money upfront for access to their space and/or provide a bland free space and a pay-to-access fun space and/or are *technically* free but find ways to heavily discourage use without payment. It's part of the reason people fled TO the internet in the first place; you could generally do whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted and as long as you wanted, for free. Games, media, hobbies, socializing, it was all completely untethered to money and the real world.
      Now that enough businesses and corporations have figured out how to monetize all the "public spaces" and "free-use services" of the internet, it's just one big, digital, global mall-city, where you can either pay to do what you want (directly through giving funds or indirectly through selling personal data and watching ads) or you can sit in a corner and frown for eight hours. It was only a matter of time, but it sucks that it's already come to pass in our lifetimes.

    • @clray123
      @clray123 7 месяцев назад

      What's stopping you?

    • @clray123
      @clray123 7 месяцев назад +13

      @@nostalgiatrip7331Well, be consoled by the fact that some would actually love to be able to live and run around naked in a warm sunny place... but instead they must be dressing up and wondering how to pay the heating bills in a climate where half of the year it's wet and dark outside.

  • @Sharkwellington
    @Sharkwellington 6 месяцев назад +922

    The tuberculosis story reminds me of Clever Hans, the horse that could do math. He was believed to be able to solve equations and answer trivia. What was actually happening, was that the person asking the question or the audience watching would often react when the correct answer was suggested. He would then stomp his foot on seeing the reaction, signalling the correct answer. He was unable to do this when the asker/audience had no idea of the correct answer, which is how he was found out.

    • @3nertia
      @3nertia 6 месяцев назад +57

      Same with the gorilla that was "taught sign language" heh

    • @3nertia
      @3nertia 6 месяцев назад

      @@noisyash4234 I am, and no she wasn't :)
      ruclips.net/video/e7wFotDKEF4/видео.htmlsi=WdPR2n_UHn2nnkug

    • @3nertia
      @3nertia 6 месяцев назад

      It was just another scam for government grants :)

    • @jokuIhaups
      @jokuIhaups 6 месяцев назад +73

      it was actually when hans's trainer was unaware of the answer or not present. the horse was picking up on the trainer's body language, not the audience 😊

    • @JanCrois
      @JanCrois 6 месяцев назад

      In academic literature about explainable AI, they actually call these faulty models Clever Hans predictors haha. There is a lot of research done to try to understand, when these models are right for the wrong reason. For example search for: Unmasking Clever Hans predictors and assessing what machines really learn

  • @maurovandevelde9659
    @maurovandevelde9659 3 месяца назад +20

    Thinking about modern day social media algorithms has made me think:
    "Why not build slot machines for kids?"
    It really feels as if that wouldn't do any more harm than what is currently being done by these algorithms.

    • @Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches
      @Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches 3 месяца назад +5

      Oh, you mean loot boxes in videogames?

    • @maurovandevelde9659
      @maurovandevelde9659 3 месяца назад +4

      @@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches actually, yes! Forgot those exist. That's pretty literal yeah. Good shout.

    • @goottimesalltimes
      @goottimesalltimes Месяц назад

      ​@@maurovandevelde9659 And before that we had kids huffing cardboard on the hunt for Charizards (although I guess that hasn't changed much - the children's bodies have just physically aged to adulthood)

    • @paradoxica424
      @paradoxica424 Месяц назад

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      Slot Machines in UK coastal arcade parlours that are targeted at children (the prize you can win being a bar of chewing gum)
      so that would just be revisiting history

  • @potatoesstarch2376
    @potatoesstarch2376 2 месяца назад +11

    I really don't like the society we've built

  • @mln2764
    @mln2764 7 месяцев назад +709

    "Of course, we creators will not lose to AI. Because AI cannot imagine." - Naoto Ohshima
    Every day I hope he's right.

    • @EnigmaticGentleman
      @EnigmaticGentleman 7 месяцев назад +169

      Fun fact: AI books exist. Now, the reason that's fun and not depressing is that they were so unsuccessful they didn't even make it into the news cycle.

    • @completelyferrouschemist6776
      @completelyferrouschemist6776 7 месяцев назад +44

      @@EnigmaticGentleman His name is Onision.

    • @aurora7207
      @aurora7207 7 месяцев назад +53

      There is no such thing as imagination. You can remember, and you can merge those memories together, but you can't imagine something you haven't experienced or seen before. Sorry, but there is no security in that thought, I'm afraid.

    • @varvarith3090
      @varvarith3090 7 месяцев назад +3

      Can you?

    • @laurentiuvladutmanea3622
      @laurentiuvladutmanea3622 7 месяцев назад +181

      @@aurora7207 Your claim is objectively false. THe fact that HP Lovecraft imagined the Elder things debunks your point. HR Giger and all of his works debunks your point. The fact that our mind created the color magenda debunks your point.

  • @KokkoroConnoisseur
    @KokkoroConnoisseur 4 месяца назад +176

    "Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” JRR Tolkien

    • @gluetubeserver
      @gluetubeserver 3 месяца назад +4

      It's not exactly a direct quote

    • @KokkoroConnoisseur
      @KokkoroConnoisseur 3 месяца назад

      @@gluetubeserver I think it is but idk

    • @ToplessTopics
      @ToplessTopics Месяц назад +3

      There was a very similar line in a comic adaptation of Coraline I read recently. I posted a picture of it to Mastodon and THE Neil Gaiman boosted my post to his followers as well!!!

    • @darkushippotoxotai9536
      @darkushippotoxotai9536 7 дней назад

      I think that people don't really understand how similar AI and Human brains are. Neural networks are literally based on working of Human brain. AI art is currently similar to visual imagery. No one conjures something utterly unique out of thin air, It's all inspired by previous works and their surroundings. It's weird to me how people call AI unoriginal when it replicates or tries to go through processes human brain undergo to develop a thought or visualization. There is no good or evil in AI. Tolkein, For all his virtue, was a rather conservative man bound by the frankly limited ideal framework of his time, unpossessed of ny real expertise or insight into our modern world, Indeed, he could not come to terms with his own contemporararies at times, as with his dislike of Dune. Not to detract from his achievements, Mind you, but one must take that into account when applying his sayings into a unrelated field.

    • @Sycosquirl18
      @Sycosquirl18 14 часов назад

      If there is no evil in a neural network, and a neural network models a human brain, does that also imply that there is no evil in a human brain?
      It seems to me that - like humans - AI is capable of evil but isn't necessarily evil by nature (AI can produce good as well as evil).
      Tolkien saw a distinction between true creation and what he called "subcreation". True creation is e.g. God creating matter from the void. But anything a human does, like writing a story or making an AI which makes a story, would be "subcreation" - creating something novel out of what already exists. Tolkien saw writing stories as "revealing" them, not truly creating them (it's fascinating, read his Essay on Fairy Stories to learn more!).
      I believe the quote above is speaking of true creation more than subcreation. It explains why Morgoth and Sauron could not make their own races, and instead corrupted existing races (elves, men, ents) to create "new" races. But I don't think Tolkien would apply it to our modern AI. I do think he'd detest our modern AI, though!

  • @joe_z
    @joe_z 3 месяца назад +61

    1:12:01 I realized a while back that a lot of the things I wanted to do simply couldn't be turned into businesses, only done as nonprofit ventures. The financialization of human relationships and the idea that anything that people wanted could be monetized for a profit eventually ended up sickening me.

    • @jeremynewcombe3422
      @jeremynewcombe3422 Месяц назад +1

      'The idea that anything that people wanted could be monetized for a profit eventually ended up sickening me.' Yes, people will pay for things that they're willing to pay for. The people who make those things will want to earn and reinvest some of that money. There's nothing wrong with that. That's freedom of choice.

    • @jasonscala5834
      @jasonscala5834 Месяц назад +5

      I have written thousands of lines of code to make useful utilities for free since I just wanted the exhilaration of developing stuff and if if someone found something useful and emailed me about it, wow! Nothing like it. One upside is that writing so much code made me a better software engineer and also acted as a showcase for my hardwork.

    • @ng.tr.s.p.1254
      @ng.tr.s.p.1254 31 минуту назад

      @@jeremynewcombe3422 freedom of choice for the rich that is

  • @nanimo00
    @nanimo00 28 дней назад +31

    As the art lead for D-Corp this made me sad :(

    • @timothyblazer1749
      @timothyblazer1749 15 дней назад

      Prove it, and will believe you.

    • @patrikantonescu4509
      @patrikantonescu4509 15 дней назад

      @@timothyblazer1749 You'll find Anders name in the link under my comment as well.

    • @LordZordid
      @LordZordid 13 дней назад +1

      I like the artstyle and it looks like a neat game.

  • @nathanstruble8587
    @nathanstruble8587 7 месяцев назад +1431

    Wrote a grad thesis on ML in aerospace. Nothing depresses me more than seeing how corrupt, toxic, and disenfranchising the field of AI has become recently. It’s so broken the only real solution is to let it die under the weight of its own expectations, since the math doesn’t support what it’s doing now all that well.

    • @JimmyMcG33
      @JimmyMcG33  7 месяцев назад +432

      It's been a relief to hear experts are feeling the same way I am. I don't think we're going to get out scot-free, but OpenAI could at least go out of business once the hype really dies down. Little victories.

    • @nathanstruble8587
      @nathanstruble8587 7 месяцев назад +140

      1) loved the video congratulations on the stellar job you did! Really like the editing style and composition!
      2) without launching into a tirade and linking a bunch of papers, i optimistically give it ~10 years before it fades completely. Again, the math just doesn’t support the applications rn.

    • @RemnantCult
      @RemnantCult 7 месяцев назад +70

      It's a shame, really. It's all very interesting stuff but silicon valley is trying to make it the next big thing, making folks think it's more than what it is.

    • @ericquiabazza2608
      @ericquiabazza2608 7 месяцев назад +25

      Brhu, is just the next push on technology, digital field
      Its the same as when robotic arms where implemented in industry line
      Make job easier and more standar, better quality.
      Also made a lot of jobs useless.
      So obiously corpos are gonna capitalize on it
      This is not beause cof the technology, but the nature of capitalism itself
      Money matters, anything else is secondary with human expenses at the bottom of said list.
      As money is power, and power let you do watever you want.

    • @Jeekc
      @Jeekc 7 месяцев назад +40

      ​@@nathanstruble8587 May I ask how Mathematics doesn't support the applications?

  • @MisterYura
    @MisterYura 7 месяцев назад +861

    "Never trust a WebP user."
    I felt that in my *soul*

    • @GavenJr
      @GavenJr 7 месяцев назад +83

      Hate that darn format.
      I miss jpeg's on the web

    • @Dan-gs3kg
      @Dan-gs3kg 7 месяцев назад +43

      @@GavenJr when the JXL standard is finalised webp will be obliterated. Imagine 30% better compression, thumbnails are redundant due to arbitrary progressive load through file truncation (no excuses, just cut off the data stream at data/quality limit), and perfect jpeg back compat transcoding.

    • @sozius0
      @sozius0 7 месяцев назад +39

      I mean webp has both the qualities of jpegs and pngs with better compression than either, great for web development due to it having a low tax load on a server's bandwidth, it's just a shame that so much software has seemingly out right refused to support it for some reason.

    • @TeamMuggi
      @TeamMuggi 7 месяцев назад +16

      PSA: WEBP can be changed into PNG seamlessly simply by renaming the file extension.
      I'm unsure if this is a feature of Win10 doing something behind the scenes, or if the data itself can be reinterpreted so easily.

    • @minerman60101
      @minerman60101 7 месяцев назад +9

      @@TeamMuggi when I've tried that it makes the image darker; loading it in GIMP and exporting it as a png or jpg feels more reliable to me

  • @Zet237yt
    @Zet237yt 3 месяца назад +18

    This video has been on my “watch later” list for way too long. I’m glad I have finally watched it, as it is really, really good. Thank you for all the work you put into that - I hope there was not too much ai involved. 😅

  • @ferenccseh4037
    @ferenccseh4037 3 месяца назад +14

    Ironically enough, youtube wouldn't stop recommending this video to me.

  • @anordinaryfellow2832
    @anordinaryfellow2832 7 месяцев назад +1160

    As an artist, AI generated art unironically made me apprieciate artists efforts and their thought process even more. It's just so much fascinating and interesting to me how artists manage to understand the sheer complexity that is art.
    Ed: that's a ton of appreciation from internet strangers, and I appreciate all of you for this. Means a lot for me. Like really, thanks!

    • @nobody-nk8pd
      @nobody-nk8pd 7 месяцев назад +92

      What I really appreciate and deeply admire is that there are still people who make and share art made by hand, who still try. I pretty much quit making art these days because it seems as futile as trying to outrun a race car on foot, and I have no idea how much mental fortitude it takes to still try in the face of imminent failure.

    • @anordinaryfellow2832
      @anordinaryfellow2832 7 месяцев назад +46

      @@nobody-nk8pd I'm truly sorry to hear this. Like really. As you said competing with AI is impractical time-wise. You could get the same level of quality tho but that requires time and dedication. If you ever wanted to tackle art again, I'd advise you not to focus on this aspect of AI. I'd tell you to try to take advantage of it as much as you can to yield the best results for yourself.
      I still draw and render by hand but I also want to explore the world of AI and see how I can make the process of crafting a piece (obviously not by literally generating it) even more efficient.

    • @raven75257
      @raven75257 7 месяцев назад +64

      ​@@nobody-nk8pdPersonally, I love making art. Despite the fact that studying anatomy is incredibly soul shattering, the idea that one day I'll be able to make my own character from the ground up keeps me going. That's how I stay hopeful. It's less about the result, and more about the journey. I enjoy the process.
      Being an artist for a living is scary right now because of AI, but it has always been like that. Creative industry has always been brutal to get into, so it's nothing new.
      Basically, I just make art for myself, and if I get lucky to have my art be popular, I'll take it from there

    • @topjos12
      @topjos12 7 месяцев назад +47

      As a regular art commissioner, I always appreciate the hard work put into the pieces I commission. It honestly inspires me to pickup a pencil and just draw things in my artbook, it looks crap for sure right now but I hope one day I can produce the same quality art that I regularly commission. And honestly, this has helped me understand that every stroke of a brush/pen matters in an artwork, which has made me respect hard working artists even more. Anyone who spends a long time honing their craft will always get my respect.

    • @runewolf77
      @runewolf77 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@nobody-nk8pdthere's still a lot of people who appreciate art made by a human being. I don't believe it's hopeless. If people adapt to the change without giving up drawing by hand, yah know there's always a way. Blockbuster went out of business when Netflix offered something new in rental. But there's one Blockbuster left! They just found a way to adapt to the change without having to do what Netflix is doing. There's always hope.

  • @PhilipRikoZen
    @PhilipRikoZen 6 месяцев назад +689

    49:22 "a good chunk of people who hire designers have no taste and think they can do the job better anyway, now they can tell the ai to make the logo pop and it won't laugh awkwardly and ignore them" this is the perfect summary of the problem. The power for the decisions is in the wrong hands and people are more and more convinced that controlling capital means been always right.

    • @quantumblur_3145
      @quantumblur_3145 6 месяцев назад +24

      Fortunately, it means they can represent their horrific taste out and proud

    • @menjolno
      @menjolno 6 месяцев назад +13

      RUclips users always write about how socialism is better than capitalism. But the irony is that when it comes to AI, youtube users judge it as if capitalism is unquestionable. So AI is attacked rather than capitalism. It is so easy that users don't even have to be paid.

    • @quantumblur_3145
      @quantumblur_3145 6 месяцев назад +30

      @@menjolno have you heard of "redundant systems"

    • @NightRunner417
      @NightRunner417 6 месяцев назад +26

      When you place total power in the hands of childish gods, you had better also kiss your world goodbye at the same time. They'll destroy it in order to milk maximum personal gain out of it, you'll be powerless to do anything more than complain and watch it happen, and in the end you'll all die together. Except, they'll die with a warm binkie they refuse to share with you. Maybe best keep a shiv on you through all that so you can take it away from them as the sun goes out on a devastated planet.

    • @MightyGachiman
      @MightyGachiman 6 месяцев назад +6

      The moment creatives stopped owning their companies is the moment art stopped being produced

  • @jurycould4275
    @jurycould4275 3 месяца назад +39

    One pivotal aspect to this latest dumbification of the masses: The universe is NOT computational. Your brain is not JUST a computer. When mathematicians, physicists say maths is the language of the universe, they want to inspire you, it's figurative speech. They don't mean it's LITERALLY the language of the universe. We have invented maths to describe the things WE can observe and very successfully. But every formula you know from f=ma to e=mc2 is only an approximation that is exact enough for most of our purposes, but still infinitely inaccurate.

    • @FrcNeru
      @FrcNeru 2 месяца назад +8

      No, by all definitions of language, math can be considered one we created to translate another language we still don't fully understand. We didn't make up the definitions of velocity or mass, we observed their consistent behaviors and then translated it.
      Einstein talks a bit about this, anyway. Seriously, saying "math being a language is literally just figurative speech" is about as wrong as claiming our formulas are "infinitely inaccurate".

    • @jurycould4275
      @jurycould4275 2 месяца назад +5

      @@FrcNeru I didn’t say it’s not a language. It’s the best language we have. But it’s not the language of the universe. It’s only the language of the pockets of logical systems that emerge from the complex systems for which we don’t have a language and which make no sense at all to us. Shills like Scott Aaronson misleadingly call it “stochastic nastiness” to gloss over the fact that there is a known hard boundary to what we can know and do. By the way, even in the space of logical problems, there are problems which we cannot solve. There are a few thousand problems for which it’s been proven that we cannot solve them. Even in our logical reality we are quite limited. The essence is that there is a hard limit to what we can discover and build and that technological progress will stop short far from such things as AGI, Interplanetary Travel, Cloning and many other things. We’ve replaced one religion of hope for another.

    • @annasofienordstrand3235
      @annasofienordstrand3235 Месяц назад +4

      The map is not the territory.

    • @seynimoumouni3399
      @seynimoumouni3399 16 дней назад

      Math is not invented it is discovered. Any other civilizations in the universe with totaly different culture, language, genetic etc, could rediscover math and use it to create technology (physics, engineering). In this sense math is the language of the universe as it allows to create useful things that works in this universe by manipulating and understanding matter or phenomenon. You claim that this universe "is NOT computational", but no one can prove that we don't live in some kind of simulation (and the opposite too). Stop being so certain.

    • @darkushippotoxotai9536
      @darkushippotoxotai9536 7 дней назад +3

      Human brain is a computer, Though, regardless of whether or not the universe is a computational structure or simulation or whatever.
      It has a tangible functional underlying architecture with distinguishable processing and storage sectors, it can be replicated (literally initiated multiple times every minute, Everytime a new human is created). It's not a spiritual comstruct. No abstract concepts need apply.

  • @Skaatje
    @Skaatje Месяц назад +4

    As long as we keep replacing jobs with machines or programs, but leave the unemployed without a way to thrive, or even just survive, I refuse to call any of this _progress_ .

  • @ShroomiusTheWise
    @ShroomiusTheWise 7 месяцев назад +466

    1:00:00 holy shit you have literally articulated this one thought I've had stewing in my brain for the past few years, the modern internet is becoming a conveyor belt for "content" rather than a collection of things you can look for.

    • @infiniminer7677
      @infiniminer7677 7 месяцев назад +39

      i've been noticing this trend with tiktok as well, your brain is literally being conditioned to not put in the slightest bit of effort to get rewarded and in a generation or so we'll see the horrible effects of it rear its ugly head once all the iPad kiddies grow up. Even older folks aren't immune, both of my parents are nearing their 50's and they use tiktok every day. The worst part is that this is literally what some companies want, and whether or not they're cognizant of that fact this is just what the market is going to do, make you consume the most slop at the lowest cost to them.

    • @metacortexvortex2131
      @metacortexvortex2131 7 месяцев назад +15

      ​@infiniminer7677
      Good point. I think people don't understand that they think so called "free market" wants this and so it gets what it wants. What they aren't considering is that people's wants are being manipulated by the Edward Bernays market psychology even more so now with technology. What do you do when the people can be programmed into believing that their choices are there own when all of the sudden they are not?

    • @Ilyak1986
      @Ilyak1986 7 месяцев назад

      @@infiniminer7677 well, tiktok is garbage, so there's your problem!

    • @bricaaron3978
      @bricaaron3978 7 месяцев назад +4

      Kind of like television, which I ejected from my life a long time ago.

    • @Architector_4
      @Architector_4 7 месяцев назад +5

      A common term to call this is "content sludge", if you're interested in additional reading lol

  • @seanrrr
    @seanrrr 4 месяца назад +928

    This AI stuff just makes me sad. Apart from the stuff about killing jobs and creativity, what saddens me most is that it's killing critical thinking. I see more and more people using AI to do stuff like make drafts of their work, plan their day for them, summarize research, etc. And I take their point, it can definitely help automate some of those trivial tasks. However, it's taking away all forms of thinking from the equation. Drafts are good because it gets you to THINK about what you're going to write/create; planning your day makes you THINK about what you need to do and what to prioritize; doing research and summarizing the points of various authors makes you THINK of their views, what the key takeaways are, and allows you to assess the quality of the work. Using AI will make it easier, sure, but you've put yourself at a huge disadvantage in terms of having control over your own life and what your mind is capable of.

    • @Mortacxo
      @Mortacxo 4 месяца назад +63

      Quantity over quality = our present AI "revolution"

    • @KeozFPV
      @KeozFPV 4 месяца назад +16

      You profile picture is making me happy. :) thank you for the memories

    • @robertbrown3064
      @robertbrown3064 3 месяца назад

      People who don't want to think will find a way to be stupid with or without an AI. Fuck'em. Hopefully, they're going to get exactly what they want, and be able to exist as immortal and nearly mindless hedonists in FDVR pods for eternity, and leave the rest of us alone. As for jobs, I'm actively rooting for AI to take every job ASAP. I want to live in a world where no human is able to contribute anything of any meaningful economic value to society, because I think that's the only scenario in which we pull our collective heads out of our asses and make a strong push for a more egalitarian, human-centric system, as opposed to a hierarchical, profit-based one.

    • @zagreus5773
      @zagreus5773 3 месяца назад

      Nonsense. You could make the same argument about calculators, that they hurt mathematics because we rely on them giving us the answer instead of calculating it in our heads. AI will not "kill creativity", just like calculators did not kill our mathematical abilities. People will simply use their creativity more effectively and not waste with stuff an AI can do.
      The critics of AI are the same as their prophets. One side claims it will be a revolution that frees us from all ills and the other that it is the devil that destroys humanity as we know it. Nonsense.

    • @thomasdracup8403
      @thomasdracup8403 3 месяца назад +47

      I’m a uni student who’s half way through writing my dissertation and although using ai to help hasn’t really been a temptation for me, it’s fairly often used by other students. Most of them reword and change what it spews out but they can still get caught by plagiarism scores and lectures who know their shit. My dissertation advisor even mentioned a time when a student submitted a completely AI written dissertation snd failed their entire degree because it created doubt about how much of their work is actually their own original work.
      For me it’s not really been a much of a thought because I don’t want to risk my degree over something so stupid, plus I enjoy knowing my work is 100% a result of my own effort and time. Even if there wasn’t the risk of disqualification I find AI is only meh at answering questions that are popular and makes very generic responses and is practically useless for anything niche.

  • @halfsine
    @halfsine 3 месяца назад +11

    this video is exactly what i have been thinking, ai went from "cool thing to play around with for a day that isnt actually useful" to literally being in everything, you cant escape it

  • @FabrizioRamos
    @FabrizioRamos 2 месяца назад +11

    Thank you. You single-handedly fixed my lack of motivation, at least today.

  • @MaggiCassell
    @MaggiCassell 7 месяцев назад +944

    Oof, this hit me: "We're at the point where we need to choose whether to build a world for money to live in, or for people to live in."

    • @bobhill9845
      @bobhill9845 6 месяцев назад +9

      Errrm yikes moment

    • @r0bz0rly
      @r0bz0rly 6 месяцев назад

      yawn, just commie bs

    • @Linkard
      @Linkard 6 месяцев назад +68

      In other words: "we're at the point where we need to choose if we want to keep serving or abolish capitalism"

    • @alexxx4434
      @alexxx4434 6 месяцев назад +12

      For people with money to live in.

    • @Linkard
      @Linkard 6 месяцев назад +49

      @@alexxx4434 no, for money to live in. There is a distinction, but it's important. Money supercedes people in a post-capitalist world. Even people with money serve money

  • @ollydix
    @ollydix 6 месяцев назад +40

    I saw this dystopian AI system from India, it looks at employees who are slacking or 'not working hard' and fires them.

  • @kdawg2468
    @kdawg2468 3 месяца назад +13

    I thought the music at the end souded really familiar, and then I realized it was from dwarf fortress. 10/10 video.

    • @mbenson182
      @mbenson182 9 дней назад +1

      Music from ~37:00 is from Age of Empires II, totally caught me off-guard

  • @keshavmowar
    @keshavmowar Месяц назад +3

    This was possibly one of the best video essays I have seen on youtube after a very long time! I can only imagine the amount research that went into this.

  • @Alexander_Sannikov
    @Alexander_Sannikov 7 месяцев назад +151

    I want to add something from my field of expertise -- computer graphics. A couple years ago there was this so-called breakthrough in this field called NeRF (Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis) that's basically a deep-learning-assisted rendering algorithm that produces a neural representation of a 3d scene from a bunch of images. When its first paper was introduced, it was pitched as the biggest breakthrough in the graphics and supposedly it was expected to replace all conventional rendering because of how powerful it looked. Unfortunately, at the time its inference was about 100x slower than what it needed to be in order to be usable in realtime.
    Fast forward 3 years later, that technology has finally advanced to the point where its performance is almost practical for realtime applications -- its performance has evolved and now it's about a 1000x faster (in the newest iteration called Gaussian Splatting) than the original version. Except one detail: there's abolutely nothing "neural" left in it. Literally nothing at all, and it's the only reason why it's becoming practical now, because the main bottleneck of that approach was the neural network inference and getting rid of it made it 3 orders of magnitude faster.

    • @TheAgamemnon911
      @TheAgamemnon911 7 месяцев назад +19

      In other words: The stupid AI found a creative solution to a problem that humans didn't know before and indeed struggled to understand how it even worked before completely dissecting the AI blackbox. :D

    • @chielvoswijk9482
      @chielvoswijk9482 7 месяцев назад +19

      Yup. My field is embedded hardware engineering and for a while, we too where looking at having to add AI inference in embedded systems.
      But much like with NeRF. Most of the planned uses just ended getting piecemeal replaced by regular algorithms and switch statements. Cause inference is expensive and often required some extra Neural processor like a Neural Compute-Stick to get anywhere fast enough. So slowly more and more tasks where being removed from the Neural Network part until eventually there where no actual models at work. Just regular algorithms that where small and efficient.
      The only thing we still use small neural models for, is computer vision. But that is so old and heavilly optimized via specialized libraries like OpenCV. That you can do it with any half-decent ARM system like a RPi zero.

    • @stevencurtis7157
      @stevencurtis7157 7 месяцев назад +15

      On the one hand, this sounds hilarious because it makes it sound like progress was made, and then to justify their existence, they made a normal renderer that actually worked.
      On the other hand, regarding what actually happened, getting an AI to brute-force a good solution so it can later be chiseled out sounds like a very 21st century career.

    • @Alexander_Sannikov
      @Alexander_Sannikov 7 месяцев назад

      @@stevencurtis7157 in this case AI didn't even bruteforce anything useful that got eventually "honed out". The actually novel and practical part of NERF(and many other DL "advances") is to formulate the task in a differentiable form so that it's _possible_ to optimize it at all with a "black box" optimizer of some sort. But as it repeatedly turns out, neural networks are just a really sub-optimal choice for such a "black box" optimizer, and there are other task-agnostic optimizer methods that perform simply better. So the big idea is to approach a task from an optimization standpoint (which was arguably never tried before NeRF in the rendering field), and that is the novel and important part, and neural networks are just one sub-optimal way of accomplishing it.

    • @axelwickm
      @axelwickm 7 месяцев назад +11

      Kind of a bad take take. NERF got useful after instant ngp, and I have used it in robotics. With Gaussian Splatting, yeah, the neural network architecture got removed, but it still is machine learning because it uses gradient descent to the core.

  • @MathematicalVoid
    @MathematicalVoid 7 месяцев назад +1079

    Ah, yes, pleasing the stakeholders is ALWAYS something that steers societies away from dystopia! Thank you, AI alignment "non-profits," for letting us know you're helping the little guy!

    • @StaySingleAndHappy
      @StaySingleAndHappy 7 месяцев назад +62

      Yes and we know those in power whether in business or government always have our best interests in mind 😅

    • @TheManinBlack9054
      @TheManinBlack9054 7 месяцев назад +14

      AI alignment is an important problem to solve, our entire race and future depends on it.
      Please go and look up Robert Miles AI safety to understand what im talking about.

    • @theperceivingeye3388
      @theperceivingeye3388 7 месяцев назад +24

      @@TheManinBlack9054whatever you say guy

    • @drmilkweed
      @drmilkweed 7 месяцев назад +51

      ​@@TheManinBlack9054i will filter my consumption. I will listen to an expert whose analysis I feel I can trust (Jimmy Mcgee) and ignore charlatans with an agenda (random guy two levels deep in the RUclips comments)

    • @WhizPill
      @WhizPill 7 месяцев назад +5

      They're so nice and considerate, thank you to these legends for looking out for us.

  • @amy_grace
    @amy_grace 2 месяца назад +110

    If I needed to look at thousands of pictures of dogs before I could consistently discern between a Labrador retriever and the letter M, I highly doubt anyone would call me "intelligent"

    • @BladeNgames
      @BladeNgames 2 месяца назад +11

      I’m certain that if you could discern a 1000 by 1000 matrix by guessing within a couple of seconds, people wouls

    • @70ME3E
      @70ME3E Месяц назад +24

      Oh, really? And what happened in your first few years here on Earth? :)
      An AI model doesn't start from where you are now, you know.

    • @videre8884
      @videre8884 Месяц назад +13

      @@70ME3E You don't understand the difference between a program and a brain......during your first years on Earth you would recognize the difference between a living being and a letter very quickly and you wouldn't need 1000 pictures to do it. The point is that these programs are called “artificial intelligence” but they are just programs and are not intelligent at all. This means that a program needs a lot of data in order to function reliably, so logically it doesn't have any intelligence but just a large database with data that has to be labeled. Such as "Beautiful Things" etc.......This alleged artificial intelligence is just a program with a database that responds to commands. Like “Draw a beautiful picture”. Then the program will search for these words and then combine the images it finds into something else.

    • @70ME3E
      @70ME3E Месяц назад +7

      @@videre8884
      you don't? 1000 pictures is like a few minutes in life.
      And that's not how AI works. (take it from an AI practitioner)

    • @videre8884
      @videre8884 Месяц назад +3

      @@70ME3E No, the brain is much faster and more efficient - you need milliseconds to see the difference and not 1000 images. If you needed or needed a few seconds to distinguish a dog from a letter, then you would have been put in a special needs class where all the children with learning disabilities go.

  • @azmc4940
    @azmc4940 3 месяца назад +34

    The only thing that "AI" will be good at is creating massive amounts of spam and scams.

    • @Pinstripe6666
      @Pinstripe6666 3 месяца назад +6

      And unemployment.

    • @Fermion.
      @Fermion. 3 месяца назад +3

      The only thing? LMAO, yeah, maybe to people that just sit back and complain about our changing society. But using OpenAI's APIs, connected to the back end of my businesses, has allowed me to open up 3 successful LLCs, while automating a large part of the work, with very little overhead (no brick and mortar building, low staff costs, etc.)
      Society is always changing; change is the only constant.
      So, you can either adapt and keep up, or complain and get left behind. Your choice.

    • @Fermion.
      @Fermion. 3 месяца назад

      @@leeroyjenkins0 - Helping e-commerce and other sites set up automated customer assistance.
      Assisting small businesses with IT management, upgrades, and troubleshooting. Most of this is done by automated networking monitoring software which is set up to email and text me and the business manager when an issue happens, and I will bill them accordingly, depending on the fix.
      - Training small business to help automate their financial bookkeeping (excel now has AI built into it, so I train SBOs on how to more efficiently manage their finances with the help of AI).
      I'm not sure what you mean by asking am I creating value, but I guess? I just do this on this side, and charge about $50/hr, and I usually do about 10 hours a week or so between just 3 businesses. I could market myself out to do more, but I'm comfortable just making an extra $500/wk on the side, with minimal effort.

    • @zigotina
      @zigotina 3 месяца назад

      hes larping@@leeroyjenkins0

  • @JamesTDG
    @JamesTDG 7 месяцев назад +160

    28:25 fun fact, Vizcom was used often to cheat legitimate artists out of money, as clients opted to pay for a sketch then throw it into the AI rather than PAY THE HUMAN FOR THE COMPLETE WORK

    • @rene3924
      @rene3924 7 месяцев назад +15

      I wouldn't really call it scamming. They requested a sketch the artist delivered and was payed. No scam involved

    • @shoda9939
      @shoda9939 7 месяцев назад

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@rene3924That’s a terrible take. That’s like asking someone to fix your plumbing, before they come in and take your money and “fix” it, and after the fact realizing that they did nothing. You lose out on time and money and they gain your money in return. The artist loses out on time while the customer gets the thing they want for free. It’s parasitism. Only one side gains while the other loses.
      When the customer requests a sketch they do that so they can confirm that this is the product they want. Usually it’s also a deterrent for customers to make any demands changing the artwork before it reaches its final stages, because they’ll already have the artwork they’re satisfied with.

    • @peaberry9413
      @peaberry9413 7 месяцев назад +57

      @@rene3924 I don't think you understand. Artists are paid based on their time and effort. Getting a completed work from their sketch is cheating them out of the money they should have been paid.

    • @acebinko1
      @acebinko1 7 месяцев назад +14

      ​@peaberry9413 A completed work, not her completed work. Any artist can take a sketch and "finish it" in many different ways.
      I don't see an issue with running an algorithm on someone's sketch that you purchased (so really, your sketch). I do see a moral issue with selling the new artwork, but I do not know who would truly own the piece. It is transformed, so technically new. But it was done by an algorithm which legally can't copyright artwork. 🤔 Hmm.. I think ultimately it's legal to sell, but illegal to copyright.
      I still stand on the grounds that it's a shitty thing to do to an artist though.

    • @peaberry9413
      @peaberry9413 7 месяцев назад +31

      @@acebinko1 I guess I should add on that maybe some artists would also do the sketch for free BEFORE asking for payment, in which case if the client declines to go further - and thus the artist isn't paid - they could still run the sketch through the AI anyway.
      I can't recall the last time an artist WASN'T asking for some form of payment up-front, though, and it's probably to combat stuff like this.

  • @evanpitkin943
    @evanpitkin943 4 месяца назад +422

    The way AI is being used is emblematic of how the expansion of human knowledge is ceaselessly commodified and weaponized against ordinary people. Makes me feel like the guy in Mad Men who lost his mind after coming into close proximity with a computer.

  • @bitnewt
    @bitnewt 3 месяца назад +19

    I really appreciated what you said about the part decision-making plays in creative work! I care very much about intention: word choice, metaphor, irony, even arbitrary "I thought it was funny at the time" will always be more interesting and complex than something a machine picked out of a hat to fill a space according to what was popular before.

    • @snail64
      @snail64 2 месяца назад +1

      my personal wiew of this is similar, but, at the same time, it's not always easy to incorporate a "I thought it was funny at the time" kinda idea into a more complicated work (in animated media I have heard of multiple instances when the author wrote themself into a corner beacuse of a concept that seemed funny or interesting at first but then they were unable to follow trough with it), it's also not easy to even create something from a funny idea, no matter how interesting of a concept in may be, people usually agree that a good premise is less important than a good execution and the execution part is what people tend to struggle with...
      so in the ideal scenario, an ai could maybe be used to help with the execution part and leave the people to be the ones who come up with ideas, like helping artists polish their work or make the author aware of potential narrative inconcistencies/bias/bad faith interpretations of their work that should be adressed, maybe offer a less expensive means of cgi (that is, of course, if it really were less expensive and didnt come at the cost of enviromental factors and such), even the thing everyone is saying about its potential to create and better browse art references is a missed opportunity (maybe not entirely a missed opportunity since I would bet that the pinterest algorythm is, like all social media these days, at least partially ai-based)...
      unfortunately, that ideal scenario is not the reality we see today (I myself was naive enough to try multiple times to use ai models for trying to reach some kind of artistic direction, and all that did is get me addicted to these websites and plagued with the urge to create while feeiling insecure about my own handmade art wich simply cannot compare to the newest ai models). ai is being used as a replacement of human creativity - instead of something that could assist creative people in their craft or make it easier for multiple creative minds to collaborate without needing to be part of a huge corporation, it is be used for the exact opposite of all that, ai serves for big corporations to monitor, control and ultimately brainwash people, and the fact that most people cant even diffferenciate between ai generated and normal art just proves that they may be able to get away with it... I gues this all just goes to show human nature, how the people at the top of the social hierarchy would do anything to exploit those underneath them in order to gain even more power, and how the average person can easily fall for it or be unable to do anything against it even if they realise what is going on (wich due to the inbalance in information would probably be too late anyway)

    • @jakubpiatek4122
      @jakubpiatek4122 2 месяца назад +3

      ​@@snail64 in my opinion, AI image generation shows that a majority of us forget what art really is. We both oversimplify and overthink it.
      Art can really be anyting - a bit of paint on a paper, a pencil doodle, a stack of rocks, a piece of paper folded, words, motion of your body. It can be a realistic depiction, or it can be abstract. It's just a medium, it can be as flawed as all of us are, and it is what gives it appeal. It shows who you are, your struggles as a human being, your thoughts, your empathy.
      It's about what it gives You as an artist, it should be your expression. If you are the only person that likes it, it's cool, it's still art. It doesn't have to hang in a gallery, or be sold to some rich jackass. Monetary value doesn't define it as art.

    • @BowOneFire
      @BowOneFire 22 дня назад

      Just wait, eventually the AIs will become skilled enough to be indistinguishable from humans

  • @troublestarter6033
    @troublestarter6033 2 месяца назад +3

    Just discovered your channel and I think this video was one of the best on AI (and being a professional aritst, I watch A LOT of those). Yoir approach is very different from other video essayists and there are some points in this video that I've only seen you make yet! It's given me so much more to think about, reasearch, and explore. Hope your channel keeps growing cause you truly deserve it! Keep up the great work.

  • @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor
    @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor 6 месяцев назад +491

    24:44 As someone who has used AI Dungeon before, let it be known that unless you wanna type out long walls of text directing the AI towards your desired story choice, it will just do whatever it wants.

    • @malachitep4276
      @malachitep4276 5 месяцев назад +59

      It used to be better
      It used to be so much better...

    • @user-qi6pv9jh7o
      @user-qi6pv9jh7o 5 месяцев назад +53

      When I first came to it, it was like that, my head exploded
      Now it just responds to anything with "so you do it"

    • @Jerryfan271
      @Jerryfan271 5 месяцев назад +50

      I don't know why, but it feels like we've gone backwards since AI dungeon. AI generated stories are just not as fun as they were when that came out.

    • @martianscienceenthusiast
      @martianscienceenthusiast 5 месяцев назад +49

      ​@@Jerryfan271I think it's because it got less inconsistent. Earlier AI dungeon was far less intelligent and more creative in how it did things and I miss that

    • @mat8791
      @mat8791 5 месяцев назад +59

      @@martianscienceenthusiast A.I Dungeon both changed models and censored itself. Majority left due to that and other previous stuff.

  • @AffyisAffy
    @AffyisAffy 7 месяцев назад +237

    I think one thing that will happen, is it will increase consumer fatigue. It will become harder for the consumer to be a discerning customer and they will have to 'dig' more or else more quality content will die in obscurity, or quickly be ingested and shat out by a company with more money, by just ctrl-C ctrl-V an art style or LLVMing a text dump of the original game. We are already at a point where YT creators can influence if a game/movie reaches the right audience. Otherwise there is a high chance a game will die in obscurity. A lot of this is going to hinge on having enough people 'hate' AI generic content. I don't think the majority of people will care, but hopefully there will be niche communities that emphasize 'hand-made' media as a reactionary movement.

    • @shinjite06
      @shinjite06 6 месяцев назад +12

      Pinterest is already becoming unbearable because of this. I used the site to collect art, but now I have to slog through so much AI shit.

    • @illyaeater
      @illyaeater 6 месяцев назад +6

      "Hand-made" is such a weird way of putting it. It wouldn't exist if you didn't put your hand on it. What people need to do is not shun the tech, but to focus on open source, and not falling into subscribing for even more services.

    • @fredmercury1314
      @fredmercury1314 6 месяцев назад +11

      @@illyaeaterI'm a purist, I guess, but I balk at the term "hand-made" when companies/people try to sell their "hand-made" furniture, that was all made with machines. Some guy recently got called out because his "hand-made" guitar was made using a CNC machine. Can you imagine the audacity?
      Like, if you're not gnawing at the wood like a beaver or clawing at it like a bear, is it even hand made?

    • @illyaeater
      @illyaeater 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@fredmercury1314 Yeah I guess it's only really hand made if you spent 50 years distilling the sauce

    • @jonnyjoker01
      @jonnyjoker01 6 месяцев назад +6

      We are literally just repeating what our ancestors always have done. When people were satisfied, or kind of okay with their lives, they let systems "control" them, when they had enough they changed the system (governance or nature itself, doesn't matter, just some kind of system they lived by). The only caveat I see to this is if (or when) we actually manage to "reverse engineer" our biology and mind and become able to play God with ourselves - not just our environment. We might kill our humanity in the process and a new age would begin when we no longer live by million years old rules.

  • @helenanitooo
    @helenanitooo 2 месяца назад +27

    This is one of the best videos I've watched. Every minute is filled with meaning and every frame is intentional, I don't know how long it took to make this, but it was 100 percent worth it, the quality really echos the message of the video. Props to you

  • @Gooeyflames77
    @Gooeyflames77 3 месяца назад +7

    This and your gambling video/s really made me change how I use my time. I'm going to try to get myself off of the content treadmill and actually make time for myself, my hobbies, my art and my backlog of media that endlessly scrolling through twitter took up. Thank you.

  • @matthewwalsh9183
    @matthewwalsh9183 7 месяцев назад +459

    One of my computer science proffessors had a good quote, "if it works, its machine learning, if it doesn't its AI"

    • @Hammers_Peace
      @Hammers_Peace 7 месяцев назад +44

      That's a pretty dumb take

    • @SpikyBlade
      @SpikyBlade 7 месяцев назад +61

      @@Hammers_Peace yes if it's serious, but I think it's a joke

    • @MrDoboz
      @MrDoboz 7 месяцев назад +9

      @@Hammers_Peace no, it's what you say to your potential customers. it's genius

    • @BIadelores
      @BIadelores 7 месяцев назад +9

      Machine learning is a form of AI. Not sure what your professor is trying to get at.

    • @secretchefcollective444
      @secretchefcollective444 7 месяцев назад +17

      @@BIadelores I think it's a joke from the 70s, 80s - AI has always been just 20 years away (just like controlled fusion), as soon as what someone in the 70s would have called AI is developed, we see it for what it is - just another aspect of machine learning.

  • @cromtuiseagain
    @cromtuiseagain 7 месяцев назад +521

    The trajectory the internet and society as a whole is going towards really was nailed by MGS2 (faceless know it alls deciding what everyone should consume under the guise of providing context to content in a sea of worthless data) and MGS4 (AI and algorithms being so intertwined with reality that no one on the planet realizes that they're taking orders from machines anymore).

    • @coreyander286
      @coreyander286 7 месяцев назад +62

      Sad that the people who would have the exact opposite position to yours also believe that MGS2 and MGS4 predicted what _they_ believe to be the story of today.
      (I.e., people who believe that people like McGee and you are economically illiterate SJWs or socialists who are either ham-fistedly trying to cage AI that could greatly improve the world, ignoring the "science fictional" type of existential threat that AI can pose to humanity, or somehow both at the same time; they also will point to MGS2 and be like "so visionary, Kojima would agree that I'm like Philanthropy and @cromtuiseagain is like the Patriot AIs".)

    • @spacebassist
      @spacebassist 7 месяцев назад +67

      @@coreyander286 honestly saddened by the idea they could take in all that stuff about echo chambers, fake news and discourse in general becoming a shit show, and decide "kojima got it right, my worldview is exactly what he meant" and go back to shitting on "the SJW's/political group i don't like" in an online group designed to discuss that one and only thing without a second thought
      i'm lucky i'm irritated by loud noises and people, those echo chambers must be hell on the brain

    • @Graknorke
      @Graknorke 7 месяцев назад +68

      MGS 2 honestly was optimistic in making its big bads the metaphysical representation of the US government, when what we got in reality is the ideological amalgamation of the most insufferable nerds on the planet

    • @sirrealism7300
      @sirrealism7300 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@coreyander286based take

    • @luizeduardogomesribeiropen324
      @luizeduardogomesribeiropen324 7 месяцев назад +32

      ​@@Graknorkecan't be any truer than that. The entire world of tech is just governed by the worst type of nerds that got soo successful that they basically became the jocks that would bully them at school instead of growing out of it.

  • @hollyday1658
    @hollyday1658 Месяц назад +3

    It took me a minute to realize what was going on with that Minecraft introduction but once I did it completely took me out. Great job.

  • @duckenomics7981
    @duckenomics7981 3 месяца назад +3

    The tone and information of this video are impeccable. You are really good at this, sir. You’ve earned a sub!

  • @dragoonpreston3
    @dragoonpreston3 4 месяца назад +911

    I actually like this video because you point out AI is itself not the problem, but its use is a symptom of the problem.

    • @aarvlo
      @aarvlo 3 месяца назад +76

      I think the current implementation of AI is the only natural conclusion of this technology under capitalism. AI is just accelerating many of the existing problems of capitalism and depersonalizing them

    • @echoecho3155
      @echoecho3155 3 месяца назад +6

      When an environment produces something that destabilizes its own ecosystem, is the problem the thing doing the destabilizing or the environment itself?

    • @echoecho3155
      @echoecho3155 3 месяца назад +9

      @@aarvlo It's the natural conclusion of technologization. I forget who said it, but "The Soviet Union and us [the US] have the same goal: technical efficiency!"

    • @Factuel-ry7zi
      @Factuel-ry7zi 3 месяца назад +4

      @@echoecho3155 Well, good thing that you forgot who that goofy was, because "technical efficency" was never a goal to begin with. Historically and nowadays, effeciency serve a purpose, then, an intention. Efficency for it's own it's not an idea but a closed loop that looks like what an AI would make as a gibberish to fill its emptiness.

    • @echoecho3155
      @echoecho3155 3 месяца назад +9

      @@Factuel-ry7zi I think you may have misunderstood my meaning.
      Jacques Ellul posited the idea of "technique," a mindset by which all human activities are subjugated to rational, technological methods of increasing a system's order and efficiency - reducing cost, removing roadblocks, and maximizing output.
      Whether it's utilizing AI to mass produce art-as-content or forcing peasant farmers off their land and into factories to maximize production, the mindset is the same. Humanity is subordinated to maximize the system's efficiency.
      As all economic systems seek to more efficiently utilize resources, whether socialist, capitalist, or communist, they all submit to technique.
      So yes, the USSR and US pursued the same goal: maximize technical efficiency at human and environmental cost. Both were at the mercy of technique as a guiding ethos.
      John Michael Greer's writing on "Progress" as an ersatz civil religion are also relevant, as that ensures technique proliferates.

  • @Francisco-Danconia
    @Francisco-Danconia 4 месяца назад +254

    "You can do whatever you want if you call it research"
    Damn that was good

    • @grayman2749
      @grayman2749 2 месяца назад +2

      Worked for Mengele and Unit 731.

    • @backfischritter
      @backfischritter 2 месяца назад +6

      Actually pretty shitty antiscience take. Scientists cannot do "whatever they want" . Companies can.

    • @ImortalZeus13
      @ImortalZeus13 2 месяца назад

      @@backfischritter Nobody is trying to blame scientists here, this is aimed at silicon valley companies trying to use "scientific progress" as a smokescreen for creating more cultural and economic sludge.

    • @JesusChristTheHoly
      @JesusChristTheHoly Месяц назад

      @@backfischritterlol sure just entirely misread his intentions because he used terminology that scientists use too. stfu bro

    • @nade5557
      @nade5557 Месяц назад +8

      @@backfischritter recent events pertaining to harvard for example show that scientists can do whatever they want as long as they dress it up in a science paper and "prove" something that will make a shareholder money. The science of old and the science of new are two different beasts, and like the guy said in the video, modern things tend to be about making money more often than not

  • @Malahattr
    @Malahattr 3 месяца назад +6

    Holy! This video has cemented for me the concept that we are continually being nudged into accepting more and more recommendations (like the auto correct that comes up when I’m typing this comment). At some point people won’t know exactly where it started, but the convenience of all of these small things added together make it seem like it is impossible to step backwards. I truly hope that we find a balance as a society and that this purported trend of increased union organizing and (hopefully) civic engagement continues. Godspeed @JimmyMcGee

    • @paradoxica424
      @paradoxica424 Месяц назад

      I absolutely despise the latest revisions of autocorrect that automatically "fix" your "typos" (I'm a touch typer and instinctively know when I've mistapped a key)

  • @jerry3790
    @jerry3790 19 дней назад +2

    9:31 deep dream low-key looks like a heroic dose of psychedelics

  • @MCArt25
    @MCArt25 7 месяцев назад +469

    Imagine if you had a tool to replace all the tedious, dangerous, and repetitive tasks humans have to do, but instead, you use it only to replace creative and artistic endeavours that humans actually find joyful and fulfilling.

    • @OnigoroshiZero
      @OnigoroshiZero 7 месяцев назад +47

      No one is going to stop you from creating art (of any form). Just don't expect to be paid for it by other people because they will get better art from AI.
      Also, replacing someone that his work can be done by a single computer is way easier than creating an entire robot for someone else's, but this time will also come in a few years.

    • @hazbiniznow89
      @hazbiniznow89 7 месяцев назад

      Your future is so bleak and empty. The quality of people will continue to drop at exponential speeds and technology like this will continue to reward lazyness and conformity. Enjoy your life long imposter syndrome and deep self loathing and smol brain syndrome, oh and forget about any sort of character building the adversity of learning and failing facilitates.

    • @rhythmandblues_alibi
      @rhythmandblues_alibi 7 месяцев назад +96

      ​@@OnigoroshiZerowow. Just wow.

    • @SexycuteStudios
      @SexycuteStudios 7 месяцев назад +17

      And it isn't by mistake. It is the first step towards complete control over us.

    • @Byzz2077
      @Byzz2077 7 месяцев назад +14

      ⭐capitalism⭐

  • @pacer2310
    @pacer2310 7 месяцев назад +61

    Mandalore, redlettermedia and now Jimmy. Today, my cup runneth over.

    • @jeremytitus9519
      @jeremytitus9519 7 месяцев назад +6

      Word

    • @JimmyMcG33
      @JimmyMcG33  7 месяцев назад +19

      I know what I'm watching tonight

    • @amergingiles
      @amergingiles 7 месяцев назад +4

      Yeah. Pretty wild how quickly the devs completely removed all the AI art assets overnight. I almost wonder if they planned for it.

    • @heinoustentacles5719
      @heinoustentacles5719 7 месяцев назад

      rlm sux

  • @CyberLou
    @CyberLou Месяц назад +3

    ... I know that creating a dystopia is within the interests of the powers that be. But what I don't get is that with all the warnings. Poeple just let it happen.
    "This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause"

  • @Cptn.Viridian
    @Cptn.Viridian 12 дней назад +1

    I think the best analogy/description of AI I ever heard was that "We made the spreadsheets think."

  • @zachb8012
    @zachb8012 6 месяцев назад +583

    I studied machine learning in university but I've spent the last 7 or so years working as an engineer, programming business software. In the last few months I've seen a gold rush to build contrived implementations leaning into AI. When I say contrived I mean... often completely stupid. Most of the people singing the praises of AI don't know how it works and chalk it up to a black box, filled with magic. It's... It's gonna lead to a lot of lawlsuits. I've heard asks range from piping private user information into language models, to using AI to build a drop-down menu. The most common ask is to, "train" a model on an extremely small data set. It's dumb. What I see happening is big companies like Microsoft selling pick axes, and a bunch of ding-dongs who failed their way to the top of middling tech companies shouldering their way into the gold rush, begging to be the first to give MS money, if only to say, "we haz the AI."

    • @ChristianIce
      @ChristianIce 6 месяцев назад +56

      "using AI to build a drop-down menu"
      That one killed me :D

    • @Fru1tpunch
      @Fru1tpunch 6 месяцев назад +24

      “Jimmy I need you to implement a model for server management in two weeks for our next earnings call do you think you can do that?”

    • @EximiusDux
      @EximiusDux 6 месяцев назад +19

      Your way of writing made me read about the usage of "ask" in the English language. So you basically use the word "ask" in place of the word "question" or "request".

    • @QW3RTYUU
      @QW3RTYUU 6 месяцев назад

      Ah the things you can do with LGBM or a random forest, and the people will come sprinting just to put a neural network there instead. It's all shapey statistics peeps, jeez! Get a glass of water and think about it for 2 minutes!

    • @chielvoswijk9482
      @chielvoswijk9482 6 месяцев назад +20

      Yeah. Machine Learning long has had a place. Said place being mostly either for Computer Vision where a margin of failure is acceptable OR as a proof-of-concept to slowly get chipped away in regards of what is being doing by a model, till it is just a general Algoritm. Cause you rarely want something that says "Maybe it is that" to be in charge of anything critical and you often want it to be able to run on a Real-Time embedded system without affecting other tasks.
      But we had a breakthrough in a single sliver of AI as a whole (LLM) and suddenly Machine-Learning had to be crammed into everything for the sole purpose of tricking dumb gullible Investors into handing over big bags of cash cause AI bubble...

  • @chinbag
    @chinbag 7 месяцев назад +55

    Anyone concerned about watching due to the heavy the GoT spoilers, please be. One of his points goes into mid season FIVE without ANY warnings. Shame on you, Jimmy Mc-WOKE!!😠😠

    • @Tom_Quixote
      @Tom_Quixote 2 месяца назад +2

      Who cares. The whole series is just random zombies, dragons, sex and murder.

    • @avamasquerade
      @avamasquerade Месяц назад

      If you wanted to watch it, you should've watched it by now. Shame on *you* for procrastinating for literal years of your life.

  • @isaacthemonke233
    @isaacthemonke233 3 месяца назад +6

    What's funny is SAG-AFTRA recently signed a deal with a company that specializes in AI voice samples for games

    • @laurentiuvladutmanea3622
      @laurentiuvladutmanea3622 3 месяца назад +11

      Which is something that actually pissed off the members of the union by the way.

    • @MASKEDB
      @MASKEDB 3 месяца назад +1

      Sounds like sag knows what’s up!

  • @_yllw6155
    @_yllw6155 3 месяца назад +1

    WOW..... THIS IS TRULY INSPIRATIONAL!!!! AMAZING VIDEO AND HIT SO CLOSE TO HOME!

  • @DiezALOT3128
    @DiezALOT3128 5 месяцев назад +40

    the "everypony" at the end of the intro triggered my fight or flight response.

  • @aidanfleming8583
    @aidanfleming8583 7 месяцев назад +362

    “in a free market, when something bad happens to you , you must be punished” almost brought tears to my eyes man . great work as usual, you’re one of my favourite writers on this website

    • @overlordbrandon
      @overlordbrandon 7 месяцев назад +12

      Top 10 myths of Free Market:

    • @hagoryopi2101
      @hagoryopi2101 7 месяцев назад +4

      How is that the inherent result of a free market?

    • @skiddytrippy7189
      @skiddytrippy7189 7 месяцев назад

      @@hagoryopi2101 because when two people want the same thing, the person with more power has many ways and connections to make it happen, and the free market eventually just has boards of companies who only see the stock price, so the thing that they want most is the expansion and growth, this happens at every large company. And compared to normal people who still has some options, people down on their luck usually have few alternatives, as literal life saving services are also privatized, thus when something bad happens to you, you become valuable asset to companies, and not a fellow human being deserving of compassion. Just like gravity forms planets out of cosmic dust, free market eventually becomes a system well adjusted for making money at people's expense(for example planned obsolescence)

    • @justincenter4061
      @justincenter4061 7 месяцев назад +18

      @@hagoryopi2101 When something bad happens to you, you are in a vulnerable position. When you are in a vulerable position, then a "rational value maximizer" *has* to exploit you (if they dont then they are either not being rational or not maximizing value).

    • @hagoryopi2101
      @hagoryopi2101 7 месяцев назад

      @@justincenter4061 the most profitable way to "exploit" vulnerable people is to offer them some security. Instant loyal customer, most profit in the long run. Anything less than that is irrational violent "logic," the fallacious belief that keeping others down benefits oneself more than mutual growth.

  • @archerkee9761
    @archerkee9761 3 месяца назад +2

    very insightfull, you've raised some important points that I haven't heard or considered before. thanks

  • @HuxleyCrimson
    @HuxleyCrimson Месяц назад +3

    As an AI engineer myself, I feel obliged to acknowledge every concern you've brought up. It's like I've got a ton on my mind, but saying it all out loud feels risky. I worry about getting laughed at or pushed aside, or even dampening the vibe and being seen as a downer. I can't help but cringe when I hear bigots and parrots praising the AI Lord and all its blessings. But hey, here I am, just riding this crazy boat, not knowing where it's headed.

  • @rixterz11
    @rixterz11 6 месяцев назад +561

    I like how up-front you are with cutting through the marketing and calling out stupid products. It makes things a lot more real

    • @Intestine_Ballin-ism
      @Intestine_Ballin-ism 6 месяцев назад +18

      makes me feel a little more sane hearing an Indian business sigma guy go "wouldn't it be dope if..?" and someone agreeing it's all gobbledygook

    • @lost4468yt
      @lost4468yt 6 месяцев назад

      How are they stupid products if they're heavily used everywhere? ChatGPT is used all over the place.

  • @DonnyKirkMusic
    @DonnyKirkMusic 6 месяцев назад +356

    I dunno if someone mentioned this already but 12:16 reminded me of how there was a time on Google where they posed that type of image-training as a "game". Google would present random images and you (and another player) would tag them. I think the idea was that you didn't see the other player's tags until the end and you got more points if you both had similar tags (with the same words). I remember playing that a lot when I was really young. So, basically, they got 11 year olds to do their work for them, too.

    • @DonnyKirkMusic
      @DonnyKirkMusic 6 месяцев назад +19

      Also, I am hoping that AI's algorithms become very transparent to the user, where they tell you and show you exactly what they are doing, what actual images in their database they are shifting through/melding together etc.
      Its very important to see the dark sides of the AI's algorithms, it will make sure that younger people make the right choices.

    • @ianfights6008
      @ianfights6008 6 месяцев назад

      that's not really practically possible; one of the most fundamental limitations of any kind of computer learning is that you don't learn what the computer does; the images don't exist anymore in the dataset, they've been distilled into rules. i'm not educated enough to completely rule out the possibility of something like that existing, but it would have to be a fundamentally different technology than is currently in use@@DonnyKirkMusic

    • @yesyes-om1po
      @yesyes-om1po 4 месяца назад +3

      well, was it not a game?

    • @BillClinton228
      @BillClinton228 4 месяца назад +7

      THe problem with AI is that it's neither Artificial nor Intelligent... a human somewhere has to add input into the system from then on there are a bunch of conditions (if else). Sure maybe they are using all our input all the time to train the model, but if you try to give AI problems that require some real thinking instead of repeating some existing model it fails miserably.

    • @yesyes-om1po
      @yesyes-om1po 4 месяца назад +7

      @@BillClinton228 thats not how AI works at all... atleast, thats not how neural network AI works, you should learn before you speak so confidently on a topic you don't actually understand

  • @Najebanski
    @Najebanski Месяц назад +2

    Damn, this hit hard. I'm glad you chose to end the video on a somewhat positive note though.

  • @josepablolunasanchez1283
    @josepablolunasanchez1283 3 месяца назад +47

    Scientists have not been able to simulate accurately the way a single neuron works. An AI neuron is like the McDonald's version of grandma's dinner.

    • @70ME3E
      @70ME3E Месяц назад +4

      It is not the goal to simulate that. The goal is to make it work.

    • @woodenspoon5513
      @woodenspoon5513 Месяц назад

      Then they’re not creating “intelligence”, are they?

    • @timothyblazer1749
      @timothyblazer1749 15 дней назад

      It's worse. It's a plastic hamburger. And it will never work. I have it on good authority from an MIT PhD who worked for Deep Mind. He told me "they don't want to do basic research because that work could take decades, and new hardware that hasn't been invented. Instead, they just want to optimize the systems that are essentially churning out garbage. So we'll just get better garbage. AGI isn't even theoretically possible, and yet they keep saying it's right around the corner. It's the biggest grift I've ever seen"
      He went to work for a games company, and does language code now. He went back to compilers and computer language work.

    • @wills.5762
      @wills.5762 19 часов назад

      Sure we can. We've done millions at once, even. It takes hundreds of billions to make anything useful though. We accurately simulated a very small slice of a mouse's brain.

    • @timothyblazer1749
      @timothyblazer1749 14 часов назад

      @@wills.5762 no, we can't. We dont have any idea what axon-axon connections do, nor do we understand microtuboles. Nor have we yet to contend with the EM interactivity within a neuron, as a carrier of complex, rather than binary or simple linear data.

  • @Ceviche4K
    @Ceviche4K 7 месяцев назад +736

    Its really funny to me how in about 8 months, after the hype bubble began deflating, saying something "looks like it was made by an AI" went from a celebration for technology to a straight up insult, as it should be. Another banger video.

    • @jamesabestos2800
      @jamesabestos2800 7 месяцев назад +1

      Ai is Th

    • @hydroxide5507
      @hydroxide5507 7 месяцев назад +47

      [thing] is bad now and will never improve okay thats a real argument and definetly not cope or a placeholder for my unwarranted anger i got from reading a twitter thread

    • @jimjimson6208
      @jimjimson6208 7 месяцев назад +78

      @@hydroxide5507 You're putting words in their mouth.
      P.S. Your unwarranted anger is showing. :)

    • @Simon-xi7lb
      @Simon-xi7lb 7 месяцев назад +50

      @@hydroxide5507 "unwarranted anger" lol, art theft doesn't warrant anger anymore huh? educate yourself kthx :)

    • @BlackTakGolD
      @BlackTakGolD 7 месяцев назад +10

      When ever was that a 'celebration,' are you just making stuff up?, from the moment that saying became, all I saw was people trying to insult the technology, especially the artist community.

  • @xXTrack394Xx
    @xXTrack394Xx 7 месяцев назад +373

    This video does a great job pulling away the wool that is over your eyes. Anyone scrolling down because they lost focus on the video should scroll back up and finish the video. The last part about monetizing your data and using it to incentivize "good" vs "bad" behavior is scary and real. I have added this to my favorites playlist.
    Also, kudos to the creator for taking his own advise and adding subtitles to his video. The crappy AI generated subtitles implemented by RUclips are a perfect example of immature AI technologies injecting themselves into our daily lives.

    • @hughlion1817
      @hughlion1817 7 месяцев назад +9

      Conflating the censorious, privacy-violating mega-conglomerate corporations with the incoming AI boom that they are leveraging against those that rely on (not merely use) their services isn't elucidating anyone.
      Also I haven't seen to the whole video yet but does he address the fact that not only is the majority of this research being conducted in the open but the industry is finally addressing the hardware problem with specialized accelerators, such that running very large models won't be the exclusive realm of quarter million dollar machines like the DGX A100?
      And then what?

    • @CyanTeamProductions
      @CyanTeamProductions 7 месяцев назад +11

      Lol you caught me

    • @cursedsucc9015
      @cursedsucc9015 7 месяцев назад +3

      not enough data put simply, if you're listening to someone with accent its hard to understand him the same goes for ai trying to understand words, if it doesnt know it tries to come up with words that are sounding somewhat similar when the bro in the vid speaks too fast trying to find the relatable word becomes impossible with the hardware it runs on. its not "immature" the models are actually quite advanced main limiter is and forever will be hardware and how much data there is. even a bad language model you built yourself could most certainly understand you (you as in you when youre trying speaking to it) but maybe not others because they speak different use, different words.

    • @TheManinBlack9054
      @TheManinBlack9054 7 месяцев назад

      No, it doesnt, it makes you think you learned something while in fact you were lied to and decieved, absolutely baseleslly. Its horrible how people can be so easily swayed without asking for further sources or facts.

    • @binbows2258
      @binbows2258 7 месяцев назад +16

      @@TheManinBlack9054 If you want to convince anyone of anything, you need to elaborate.

  • @washboardman7435
    @washboardman7435 3 месяца назад +4

    The idea game developers would handle their AI-generated dialogue by "doing it in the cloud" would just insure the game is a live service model and you have to pay weekly to play.

  • @MsPoliteRants
    @MsPoliteRants 2 месяца назад +24

    It took Michelangelo four years to paint the Sistine Chapel.
    That kind of dedication (and long-lasting salary) is not tolerated today. That's the core of the issue. Call it capitalism, call it plain greed and instant gratification. No matter what you call it, the problem is our culture and mindset. We want more. We want it sooner. We want it better. We want it now. Anything that takes more than "now" is forgotten about.

    • @darkushippotoxotai9536
      @darkushippotoxotai9536 7 дней назад +2

      That is an inherently flawed view of this topic. By that logic, the work of a team of 10 experienced human calculators should be better than a digital calculator. It is not. Human history is the history of people trying to do "X" more efficiently. It is responsible for all our technological development. The very fact that we are here, debating this is felicitated by technology. In 20 years, AI would be as integral as the internet. I am not the biggest fan of Worker exploitation myself, But I think "art" is overly gated. Effort doesn't give you a right to authenticity nor compensation. Digging with your hands is effort but it's not going to get you paid more than a guy using a Excavator machine.

    • @MiScusi69
      @MiScusi69 День назад +1

      ​@@darkushippotoxotai9536Bro is held at gunpoint by OpenAI 💀

  • @Shouja198
    @Shouja198 7 месяцев назад +113

    You ending with the statement that “they are gamifying our lives” felt too poignant after I just finished Jack Saints video about “why space jam is a revolutionary epic”. He points out how in the movie Bugs makes the fake “rules for enslaving a race” book, and the aliens choose to follow these guild-lines because “it is the rules”. The comparison is drawn to how we choose to let these corporations structure the world through their lobbying to tell us this is how life works while making living hell for most people, usually because we can’t imagine how things could be different while many people try to come up with these alternatives who are dismissed because it can’t be flawless before being implemented. I don’t think I really said anything new that wasn’t touched upon, it just felt so apt hearing watching these two vids relatively recently and hearing the same apt point

    • @Stoonk
      @Stoonk 6 месяцев назад

      LMFAO No surprise the mental midgets who like this sewage also take manchild Jack Saint seriously

  • @sgtpepper91
    @sgtpepper91 7 месяцев назад +76

    I can't express in words how valuable this essay is

    • @flameguy3416
      @flameguy3416 7 месяцев назад +2

      But you left a comment

    • @MrCreeper20k
      @MrCreeper20k 7 месяцев назад +6

      @flameguy3416 I understand it's a little quip but since it's a pedantic quip I feel okay with saying "well actually" because though they used words the implication is that they have not expressed how valuable this essay is. From their perspective the comment only served to express a miniscule fraction of the value and to express the true valuable would be impossible. Interestingly, if they said "I can't express in words that this essay is so valuable", then it would be ironic since then "is" serves to make the statement into a binary one of "is so valuable" or "is not so valuable" and not a matter of degree like the first case.

    • @sgtpepper91
      @sgtpepper91 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@flameguy3416 you're really confused

  • @freed.man.1
    @freed.man.1 3 месяца назад

    This video was really well done bro, I watched the whole thing. Many things to think about.

  • @Ziphon
    @Ziphon 2 месяца назад +8

    Almost didn't click on this video, I'm glad I did, and I'm even more glad I watched all the way through until the end.

  • @MCSorry
    @MCSorry 7 месяцев назад +86

    29:08 "... when you create something, you're constantly making tiny choices and I think an author's voice is a sort of harmony and consistency between those choices."
    This quote perfectly encapsulates how I feel about AIs in creative fields. Intentionality should be a key aspect of any piece of art, so it makes sense to use AI when randomness is the intention (the movement of models in Rain World, for instance). Otherwise it becomes a crutch and leaves what you're creating feel vapid and uninspired.
    But at least I can become a fucking prompt engineer.

    • @awsomebot1
      @awsomebot1 7 месяцев назад +3

      Thing is how much does this matter for the average mainstream media enjoyer lol. Does it really matter if the next Thor has intent behind it

    • @wills.5762
      @wills.5762 19 часов назад

      @@awsomebot1 Honestly, yeah it does. How much it matters is a little more dynamic, its like the frog in the pot. You cant put a frog in boiling water or it jumps out, so you put it in a pot of cold water and then turn the burner on, by the time it realizes its being cooked it no longer has the strength to jump out. We could see something similar with AI, and we are: its slowly creeping in, generating low quality media for consumption. Not in such quantities that it causes an outrage, but it will get worse. As AI media becomes more and more normal, we notice it less, which allows it to penetrate further. Eventually we're left with very little except for AI generated art of all forms, and it will all suck, and still nobody will care because it happened gradually enough to avoid a backlash.
      It matters because right now the water is still lukewarm, we can still jump out of the pot, but not for very much longer.

    • @awsomebot1
      @awsomebot1 17 часов назад

      @@wills.5762 You're saying it should matter. I agree. But reality is, for most people it will not.

    • @wills.5762
      @wills.5762 17 часов назад

      @@awsomebot1 My affirmative answer was addressing your 2nd sentence, otherwise yeah, I'm saying it should matter.

  • @speed0spank
    @speed0spank 7 месяцев назад +62

    Seems like many of our elected reps barely understand email let alone being able to tackle AI laws. What a nightmare.

    • @Intestine_Ballin-ism
      @Intestine_Ballin-ism 6 месяцев назад +1

      I had to explain to my managers how to put a password on a .zip file...

  • @patrikantonescu4509
    @patrikantonescu4509 28 дней назад +32

    Hey! I'm the artist behind the D-Corp key art and I'm strongly against using AI generated content in game development. So it feels extremely weird to be lumped together with it like this, I guess with the caveat that you think it's also generic, which i dont't know how to take except for a thinly veiled insult. Oh well, thanks for showing the game I guess.

    • @scug1997
      @scug1997 26 дней назад +3

      Wow, that's sad, I'm sorry. As a viewer I'm gonna check out the game properly

    • @limiNZ
      @limiNZ 17 дней назад +2

      damn :( shows a lack of research which is reasonably pervalent in this video

    • @timothyblazer1749
      @timothyblazer1749 15 дней назад

      Assertion of origin is not evidence. Tell us about a website that proves what you just said is true.

    • @glovemiester
      @glovemiester 7 дней назад

      I'm against ai generated assets, like textures 3d models or even ai generated dialogue, but code made with the *assistance* of ai is fine.

  • @lionheart4424
    @lionheart4424 3 месяца назад

    This is one of the finest video essays in this platform. Great job!

  • @phirmth
    @phirmth 7 месяцев назад +106

    I appreciate you specifically calling out "iceberg explained" videos, because those are consistently some of the most content-barren things I've seen on this platform. The perfect example of saying a bunch of words without actually saying anything about the subject.
    (also my Ikaruga video rocketed way past 1k views thanks to you, so thank you again, forreal, means a ton)

    • @niggacockball7995
      @niggacockball7995 7 месяцев назад

      some of them sound like the script was written by AI

    • @mochapoke3100
      @mochapoke3100 7 месяцев назад +6

      They're such a tossup. It's potentially an interesting way to structure a video but if the person doesn't really care about the topic or the iceberg is just full of boring stuff nobody cares about its just... Whatever

    • @phirmth
      @phirmth 7 месяцев назад

      Yeah, from my experience some of them can maybe be okay (and I'm very familiar with where the concept comes from) but more often than not, I find that "iceberg" videos basically tell you what each bullet point on said iceberg is in a very "reading the first paragraph of the wikipedia article" sort of way

    • @Snack-Sized-Femboy
      @Snack-Sized-Femboy 7 месяцев назад +1

      If you didn't know, the "iceberg" format was a meme that started on 4chan. It was a simple way of conveying a range of how well known certain things are, or more commonly, how often certain things are used. (For example: A Call of Duty weapon iceberg, with the most overused and beloved weapons at the tip of the iceberg, and the most cheesy/underutilized stuff at the bottom, like the javelin launcher, underbarrel flamethrower, knife only, etc.) The icebergs as a whole were usually meant to be funny, not some spooky mystery tier list.
      It was really simple to just make your own iceberg in MS Paint + Google Images in like 5 min. A lot of good ones came out of that. Unfortunately it started to get super mainstream when le reddit caught on, and they started trying to make their own icebergs, or do videos on icebergs they have no actual knowledge of. It really kinda ruined the whole thing.

  • @mickomoo
    @mickomoo 4 месяца назад +319

    You had me at leaded gasoline. I spent the better half of my adult life trying to understand market failures and examples like DuPont's made me realized how adversarial market actors can be, hiding the externalities of what they're doing to increase profits, then using that money (which economic theory says wouldn't occur in a perfect market with perfect information) to rewrite the rules. Great job connecting the through line at the end to pricing discrimination, nudging, and commodification of time, all things that result from an information asymmetry and that stand to grant specific companies a lot of money, market power, and even political power depending on how that money is invested.
    The real runaway superintelligence is already here, already misaligned to human values, and will bring about a world that I think most people wouldn't want if it were presented upfront to them.

    • @stevecarter8810
      @stevecarter8810 4 месяца назад +40

      This! It's not that ai will become sentient and rebel against the humans, it's that it will supercharge the casual inhumanity of commerce and industry.

    • @destructionindustries1987
      @destructionindustries1987 3 месяца назад +2

      This is fascinating

    • @shadowsketch926
      @shadowsketch926 3 месяца назад

      @@stevecarter8810 IE rampant capitalism, the death of humanity and its soul

    • @darkzeroprojects4245
      @darkzeroprojects4245 3 месяца назад +1

      ​.
      As someone who's bit of a capitalist I agree on this,
      This is use too much.

    • @mousepotatodoesstuff
      @mousepotatodoesstuff 3 месяца назад +1

      "will bring"
      Already has been. (It can get worse tho, don't worry about that :P)

  • @nanami73_
    @nanami73_ Месяц назад +3

    I liked your video a lot even though I disagree that art isn't just a reorganization of preexisting things. That's essentially how the universe works. It's usually the filter of a human body that helps facilitate the originality of the art we create.
    I felt that your message should reach more people, but it's hard for those who aren't willing to listen to understand complex ideas. I don't have an answer for how we would accomplish this spreading of wisdom, but I guess having too many ideas within a single video could deter people from being able to resonate with each new idea you present.
    I hope we get a series from you soon!
    Thanks again for the effort to make this entertaining video!