Is A.I. Coming For Your Job?
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2023
- We are entering a new phase of technology with the rise of AI image generators and GPT chat bots. Is it scary? Is it coming for your job? Is it going to steal all of your work?
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On the subject of investing in yourself, that doesn't mean you need to learn something productive. In fact, I would recommend learning something "useless" or that you can't immediately monetize or market. Just some kind of mental exercise or some subject that seems interesting. It changes the way you think for the better and overall makes you a more interesting person.
Most of these trade jobs require WAY more intelligence than your average meeting goer paper pushin’ white collar jobs.
“It’s like nano-tech for music!” 😂
Haha, that's what I hear when CEOs and congressmen talk about tech
That would actually be interesting thing to have music that can only be developed or composed at a nanotechnology level like if bacteria could produce unique music with variations unheard or unthinkable by humans
When 2d animation was completely replaced with 3d due to ease and reduced cost, many of us mourned the soullessness in comparison, but look what’s happening with the spiderverse, puss in boots, and tmnt. We always find a way to inject art and soul into new technology because that’s what we do. It just took a while.
Still want that organic return to 2D
@@Thomasmemoryscentraleven though it’s mostly on TV and streaming, 2D animation still exists!
But if you want organic 2D animated stories,
Indie animation like Lackadaisy, Ramshackle, Helluva Boss, and more are there to provide!!!
There's always anime for that
The TMNT art style looks absolutely awful
clients having a "vague idea about a feeling about what they want" cracked me up, it's so true it hurts. great video!
I am worried about creativity; it seems creativity is stalling, even slumping. But this has been happening for a while, and AI will not inspire others to do better, it will simply be something that will do it for them.
Ironic, considering 'Greg Owen' is 100% computer generated. Joking aside, my wife is inexplicably quite high up in this line of work and she thinks AI is being over-hyped. It's more likely to take away women's boyfriends than their jobs.
If AI can make my virtual husbands better in my farming/life sims, I'm all for it! XD
Hahahaha, that needs to be the next video because I imagine plenty of guys will be defending their feelings for their AI girlfriend. I need to go watch Her again, that movie was shockingly ahead of its time I think
The biggest danger of AI isn't the AI itself and what it can actually do (which is not as much as people make it out to be), it's the stupidity of people trying to be cheap. I've already seen people can all their artists because they think AI can do it. I think we know how well that worked out. Heck, even before AI became a buzzword, I've had bosses that legitimately thought I just pushed a button to make CAD models and the computer did everything itself. Just as the average person is lazy, the average person is not very intelligent or well informed. Unfortunately, those people are often the ones in charge for some reason.
AI is certainly going to cause a lot of problems, but I don't think loss of jobs is it. Or at least, no more than any other technological advancement like you've mentioned. AutoCAD caused a similar wave way back in the day for drafters. They got canned because cheap bosses thought the engineers could just do it themselves on top of their regular job. Turns out they couldn't, and they had to start hiring CAD specialists. 20+ years later we need CAD specialists more than ever because more and more is being built off of/dependent on that CAD data. And if the CAD data is no good ... well, that just causes all kinds of problems, and sometimes even legal issues.
All that said, pretty sure I've already seen the effects of the "AI inbreeding".
Not sure how you have time to watch a scary amount of RUclips while raising 6 kids. Props to your wife for apparently being Wonder Woman... and to you for somehow marrying Wonder Woman.
The secret is to pick them up when you're both young. I married her just out of high school and we had kids and now she's stuck with me, muahahaha! Seriously, though, she doesn't just watch them, she homeschools them too! I don't understand how she gets it all done, I just say thank you and thank God
Turned 48 the other day. I'm just trying to make it to retirement now before I'm replaced by A.I. and robots.
Really, it's my kid's future I'm worried about.
There's videos online of wallking tours of San Francisco showing all of the closed stores and shopping areas, not due to A.I., but rather a combination of crime, people working from home instead of working downtown, and Amazon deliveries removing the need to visit shopping spaces. So, there are things far more mundane than A.I. that can take your job.
It's nice to hear a laid back take on this for a change. I'm still very concerned, but you bring up some solid points. Great video, Greg.
I’m a sales insurance agent. After the pandemic, companies scrambled to make more money. Aside from increasing rates, companies all started to screw over there agents by changing pay structures and significantly reducing commissions. An example is setting high goals when no calls are coming in. (If u don’t reach goal you don’t get paid) My company also pushed hard for more customers to purchase online which also impacted us negatively. I Can clearly imagine a future where AI is able to replace the majority of a company’s sales and further reduce my income.
As a professional developer and Data Scientist I can basically echo everything in this video. AI is scary powerful, but will always be incapable of independent thought. It won't be able design a holistic application to fit into a business process, but it can help you overcome the thousands of hurdles that coding throws up.
"Low level common cheap stuff"..... that one hit home 😂
VERY interesting topic. I work as a Solutions Architect (pre-sales) doing a lot of basic programming and answering high-level technical questions for potential customers. I've used AI in the past to get *started* on scripts, but found that it's difficult to get it to work exactly how you want it out of the box, meaning there was still plenty of work to be done on the script to get it where you needed it. That being said, it feels like how you mentioned art and AI- it's a really great jumping off point to get you started. I expect this to get better (obviously), but at the end of the day, having a person to talk to is extremely valuable, which is where most of my role comes in.
I got my father hooked on your vids lol. We both love how entertaining the way you explain your thoughts can be.
Thank you so much, I’m glad you I like them!
The cruelest, and funniest, irony is that the jobs most likely to be replaced by AI are the “intellectual” jobs like creative writing, bookkeeping, coding, timekeeping, and legal consulting. Essentially jobs that so many kids were told they would get after college. Jobs that were “stable”
Coding jobs are largely replaced overseas already, and it's far from being replaced by AI. Legal consulting... sure, but giving people a non-bankrupting option to defend themselves legally in the future seems like a good thing to me. Or help them make sense of nonsensical laws. There's good and bad that will come from AI and the only people(CEOs, VCs, and nontechnical people) that are telling you that it's going to replace everything everywhere, respectfully, have no idea what they're talking about and are just riding the bandwagon in a similar way that everyone rode the cryptocurrency bandwagon. Coding tools have been using AI for a long time, modern code completion(as Greg mentioned in the video) uses AI and nobody bats an eye. Modern AI advancement will yield tools that will make your life learning and programming much easier. By the time AI has the intelligence to replace full programming jobs, we'll have bigger problems to worry about. That might not happen in our lifetimes though.
yep if your job can entirely be done at a computer you are in trouble... better learn some trades lol
Absolutely. AI is just built differently than the human brain.
I could never put my finger on it, but I always had a feeling these kinds of jobs weren't going to remain stable forever.
You're one of the only people who has hit on the actual problem with Copyright going Chicken Little over AI generated work. If we start throwing bandaids on this, it's going to hurt a lot of creators.
Thank you for the "why" being more important then the "what".
17:19 Those white dragon paladins are so cute! Batting a 1000 with an image creator is so rare.
Right?! I think I'll give him one of those. The Ranger was cracking me up. Those bow strings are attached to something, but it's not the hand
This video reminded me of what an old mentor told me.
He said "The secret to creativity is hiding the sources."
I guess time will tell...
“Art is made by humans and allows us to experience meaning” was my teacher’s definition…
Really seems entertainment will be the AI's punching bag. Only hope is people wanting man made art THAT IS GOOD as the qualifier
My fingers are crossed that the audience can tell the difference, even if subconsciously, and they reject it
@@gregowen2022you and me both, dude!
You and me both!
Thanks for giving us a reasonable look at AI. I don't have huge amounts of time currently to dig into these things so you and others are very helpful.
Well said. I've been telling people for years that AI isn't Skynet or Ultron, it's Google translate. If the people using it don't have a basic understanding of the task they're using AI for, they're gonna look like an idiot. I'm shocked at how unreceptive people are to this perspective. They really like to cling onto the AI is some form of all powerful magic perspective.
And I was telling people just the other day that AI can't actually create new things like stories or art. It'll be able to create imitations, and they'll all start developing familiar patterns if one consumes enough of the AI generated stuff.
12:49 - Punched cards _were_ digital. The point of magnetic tape was its greater speed and capacity.
Seriously, great video, but stuff like that just catches my attention.
I feel like AI is overused. It’s a tool made to help you improve what you’re making, whether it be an essay or a PowerPoint. This isn't something lazy people use when they don't feel like drawing but really want to.
This whole thing is just screaming for a Dr Ian Malcolm monologue.
That speech was so prophetic and it gets more poignant with each passing year
So..... what I got from this video is that if the conspiracy is true, Amazon's RoP isn't copyrighted. 🤣
I work full time as a dev and use AI regularly for boilerplate and answering a lot of "what are the words for that?" type questions. It's like snippets and code complete voltroned together. Connecting that code to the rest is a lot of the work anyway. It's like a machine that gives you the sub assemblies of your program, but you need to know how to ask for them, and which ones are best to use. It's still spotty for anything more elaborate, and lots of things are environment specific, but a lot of the annoying things are easy to deal with.
It's going to be a thing that raises the floor. It's a bit beyond it's capability to move the top end.
interesting video, but unrelated, is it bad that i looked away from the video every time an ai-generated picture was on the screen? i'm deathly afraid of the messed up ai hands lol
Being in the software industry myself, I can say that Greg is 100% correct!
Do you plan to do a review of TMNT Mutant Mayhem?
Absolutely! Probably seeing it tomorrow
@@gregowen2022 nice! Really hope that movie does not disappoint.
I like how there are both idiots that think AI is useless and will change nothing and idiots that think AI will end humanity with absolute certainty
As a professional illustrator I absolutely hate these AI image generators, because if a publisher can get an image for free which fills their needs why wouldn't they use that instead of paying me for something original?
Because the picture cannot be copyrighted and because of that they will still hire somebody to put enough work into it so it can be considered a human creation. Then being able to claim the copyright over the picture.
AI could be used to write film scripts, which is a threat to writers. But would the scripts be good? Nope. Quality requires a human touch. However, with how greedy Hollywood is, would they care?
Jokes on ai then because im inemployed 😂😂😂😭😭😭
1.4 billion workers will be impacted by 2026! It’s gonna leave a mark.
14:29 self awareness at its finest 😂
Who will program the programmers?
Also, great job; being intelligent, funny, and educational is hard, but you make it look easy.
I agree that AI models using publicly available art for training is not stealing because like you said it does not directly copy the art that it was trained on. Instead it just makes reference to the art it was trained with and pulls from every reference that is in relation to the tags being used.
I use automatic 1111 to make pictures.
A lot of people will use programs like automatic 1111 to mass-produce pictures. The pictures that come out from just a desire to mass-produce pictures I do see has been soulless.
I believe that the proper way to use AI generation as a medium is to constantly refine your process and pictures until they look good.
When making my pictures I often have to open them in Photoshop to add colors to spots any hope that the model will understand what I am trying to add or correct. Other times I have to shift parts the picture around in Photoshop and then try to add the appropriate colors so that the of the parts generate what I wanted to.
Within automatic 1111 making the prompt is only the first step. A skilled user will also need to write the prompt in the proper way for the model used and adjust the values and positions of the tags as well. Choosing the appropriate model and VAE. After the pictures generated the refining process begins. Using Photoshop is a part of that but there are things within automatic 1111 to use at the same time. Looping back the picture having it to constantly use the last picture as a reference and figuring out how high the final CFG scale to be and how many loops it should do. Adjusting the prompt, sampling methods, and sampling steps. Choosing if I need to keep the original seed or set it to random. Using inpainting telling the program what parts of the picture be to be regenerated and at the same time possibly adjusting all the other things at the same time.
When making a pictures it is as easy as just writing prompt something good may come out just from that with a good model. Simply writing the prompt may not be good enough and you need to adjust things within it. With refining the pictures and a lot of time is put into making it look the best.
Art is the manifestation of a humans thought and I AI as a tool to be able to achieve that.
Omg, someone else remembers the movie "Screamers".
I haven't seen it in so long but I remember loving it. I need to do some retro reviews. Probably going to start with Screamers and Enemy Mine
I'm a school custodian so I highly doubt they will though they are more than welcome to it. I do use AI to create NPCs for my D&D campaign so I like it. As a creatjive writer... I don't know.
well I don't have a job so checkmate, AI 🙄 (I will soon if all goes well)
Not sure how much a trust a dude that's into Tea that much.😁
This is exactly the topic I was hoping you’d make a video on!
I have a very similar opinion about AI!
I still feel a bit iffy about the way this tech is trained, but I admit I also feel that when you actually look into the mechanics, like what you said, most of the databases delete the initial sources of their training data and just use the brand new data they generated. I will admit that when you explain it that way, the generators that use that kind of data actually kinda sounds similar to how a human brain works, just minus the logic, reasoning, and emotion, because THAT’S where us humans have to pick up the slack. That being said, I still personally believe that any AI tool should be created and programmed with artists and creatives in mind, and should have artists compensated whenever their work is used in any text prompts. But I see that doing that might bring up the whole style copyright thing, which as you said, (and even Legal Eagle confirmed) you cannot copyright a style. But even after doing some basic research, (most of which seem to confirm that the style of something can’t be copyrighted. And I think same goes for trademarks too? Not sure about that yet) I’m still just a bit confused about the trained on artist’s style = compensation for every image generated in that style. Like, I understand and agree that artists should be protected in some capacity, but at the same time, if we allow the style of an art piece, even if it’s mimicking an artists specific style, to be copyrighted, I think that would open up the door for not just AI, but every work done in any style to be sued out of existence! All the fan art, parodies, tributes, would be on the chopping block alongside AI generative images!
I think that the issue people have, even if they say otherwise, isn’t that their style is being used in generative AI, but that their full artwork is being used without permission, and even then the lawsuits are a bit dicey. Thankfully AI images or videos cannot be copyrighted without substantial human involvement. And I think the issue that artists might need to focus on, (as well as the issues they already are focusing on,) is any bad actors who actively use AI to deface and diminish artists with the intent of running them out of business. But there is some good news that there are companies who are doing their best to develop AI tools that ACTUALLY put artists first, and address all their concerns. Magma Studio is an online collaborative art space where people can all draw on the same canvas, and contribute to the same drawing. Magma is currently beta testing their new AI tools, and they say in their AI manifesto that they are trying to create an ethical, Artist focused, AI tool that doesn’t replace anyone, and instead helps artists be more creative! I don’t know how it’s going as I’m not beta testing it, but it seems that Magma is trying to make an ethically programmed/trained AI, and I’m honestly hopeful for them!
Same with a vector art app that I use called Linearity (previously Vectornator) which they do say they’re working on AI tools, and I did get a pop up in the app at one point asking if they could use my work to help their learning algorithm, BUT they gave me an opt out, which I chose, and that alone makes me a bit hopeful!
And even Adobe, with their tool, Adobe Firefly, which they say they only train on their own stock images which the do have the rights to use!
I haven’t used any of these tools yet, (the only tool I used was DALL-E) and I still am praying for all my fellow artists, but I don’t want to go all “we’re all doomed” (at least not until the AI becomes actually self aware and actively, on its own accord, tries to turn us into the guys from WALL-E)
So far, the only way this AI is unethical is if A. People use and/or program it with malicious or careless intent. And B. People allow themselves to feel defeated and let the new technology run them out of business!
Yes things are gonna change a lot, and some jobs will be automated. But WE can choose what those jobs are, and we can choose to adapt and keep making art by combining our own skill with AI tools! And not in the defeatist “well, guess my dream job is done! Time to let AI do my job better!” Kind of way! I mean harnessing AI WITH ALL YOUR EXISTING TOOLS, DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL, And make AI work with you! AI is only as powerful as you allow it to be!
In fact, that short film I’m working on, which actually tackles this whole AI situation…I have officially decided that yes, I will use generative AI elements in the project (I mean, it’s about AI, so it’s only fitting that a few elements are made with generated images and assets.) BUT even though styles aren’t technically copyrightable, I’m still not gonna use any artist’s specific style, and instead just use generic text prompts, and only use specific descriptors if necessary, and NOT USE ANY ARTIST OR TV SHOW OR COMPANY’S NAME in those prompts!
Also, To be as careful as I can be, I’ll be using generators or tools that are as transparent and artist friendly and copyright friendly as possible! Like the tools in Magma Studio once they’re available.
I did hear a while ago that Stabile Diffusion changed to a different data set or something to be more respectful to artists, but I’m not exactly sure.
But anyway, that’s my ramble on my thoughts on AI.
I hope this makes some level of sense despite my rambling.😅
(Plus, a lot of the “AI” software some companies are talking about aren’t really anything new from the algorithms and learning software that has existed already.)
For me It's not AI can't replace artists but AI shouldn't. I don't have the exact words to explain it but imagine like replacing a professional athlete with a robot lol. I kinda agree with the writers. But I also blame the so called writers who brought this on themselves they made so much shitty content and the studio lost so much money they are considering AI to replace these talentless hacks.
Pretty sure part of the blame for shitty scripts is from the studio execs. They'd rather do soft reboot after soft reboot pandering to Twitter than risking to try a new franchise.
I actually frequently recommend to jr devs and interns at my company to resources to understand a solution, not just construct it. Currently that's because coders will just copy and paste a solution to some small problem from stack exchange without figuring out WHY that code solved the problem they were running into. AI is basically gonna be super stack exchange for programming. There will be fewer programmers, but still plenty, and we'll probably be even more overpaid lol
Yes AI or robotics are coming for your job. You should definitely have a level of concern.
Yes. Yes it is. But far too late to be having this conversation.
Strap in and enjoy
AI training on work made by other AI?
So basically what is happening in the film industry.
Haha, right? That's definitely how it feels
Worked as a labourer for 5 or 6 years when I was 16 before taking up painting and decorating.
Until A.I thinks it can mix cement and log bricks around a worksite, or strip you’re old wallpaper and paint you’re ceilings then i don’t think many tradesmen or people who actually work physical labour jobs will be sweating much. Figuratively like lol
Creatives and lower tech heads must really be cursing it right now like, and it’s understandable. It does have the potential of erasing work for a whole bunch of people who don’t know how or want to operate a shovel. The people who work the call centres have all been made redundant and it’s one of the few jobs open for anyone with low skills. It’s tough man and I’m not the guy to have a real opinion on it. I’m not a tech head at all but surely there’s only so many things a person can do with a computer that a programmer can’t create a AI for once never to be needed again. And the regular everyday person only has a limited amount of opportunity and skill. I do think it needs regulating before we all and up like the humans in Wali haha
FINALLY someone that knows better than to freak out about this. This is coming from an artist that's posted plenty on DeviantArt. I love playing with AI, and I'm confident enough in my abilities as an artist to not be threatened by a glorified mindless picture conglomeration generator.
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I swear I just commented yesterday about you making a video on AI. How did you do that??
That's why I couldn't comment back, I jumped on your request immediately!
I thought the maine isn't what it can do now but what it can do in a few decades.
I'm curious. Does anyone use their thumb to click their mouse?
In the end it's not your jobs it will be coming after.
Yes, we are all gonna die, and it's wonderful
If you're a writer?
Ohhh yes!
🤣
I think writing is going to see a brief dip, but come back when they realize AI writing sucks. Someone else here commented about their experience with AutoCAD. The jobs dropped at first until everyone realized that a tool to speed the job up doesn't mean the real skills are replaceable
@@gregowen2022 I know, AI is a long way off from actually replacing human creativity, I just can't help enjoying the shitshow these very uncreative hacks are putting up. We're watching it all for for free and there ain't a damn thing they can do about it!! Not Iger, not Zegler and not even Rapinoe..🤭
In the end, Iger, Zaslav and other studio execs know that AI won't replace writers. But their greed and dumbness will lead them to try it anyway.
This channel rules. Pretty sure I'm sentient but ...does it matter? Is that you John Wick? Is this me?
Great advice that we should all do but I don't think you've properly analyzed the situation. People like you and I can learn new skills and adjust, but most people cannot and won't. AI isn't a fair comparison to the Internet. AI is going to replace a LOT of unskilled jobs and replace them with only a few skilled jobs. What are all of the truck drivers supposed to do? You think they're all going to adjust to some creative or tech job? No way lol
This is going to have a huge impact on our society. I don't think there's any good answers yet. Your solution will help some people and should be done, no matter what, but it won't help the majority who will be displaced and unable to find another job
Hey, I was excited when I found that Spotify AI thing lol. It says my name!
Greg, I love your take on how AI will never truly replace people in the creative space and the positive outlook that while AI may destroy some jobs, new things we haven’t even imagined will open up.
That being said….
I build these things for a living and we 100% are coming for your job. I’ve spent the last few years building a bot that went from mildly giving you useful information and routing you to the right agent to being able to give you the best available action based on previous history/communication/issues you are experiencing/a number of other factors I cannot disclose.
As we built out new integrations a team member and I discussed how cool it was that we were taking actions that once took a person and automating it. Then he came to the question no one wants to say, ‘wait if the bot does all this what will the service technicians do?’ I just have to smile and nod.
So, AI will just jam even more crappy and generic stuff on Internet.
I use AI voices for some of my videos as me not talk so good as you
I think Greg really nailed on this one except one point. Sure AI is making the low lvl crap now, but that doesn't mean it won't be making that high lvl shit all by itself later.
Now wait two more years and nobody will be able to tell the difference between a "real" piece of art and AI. Good luck enforcing copyright there.
idk why but i feel like if you see AI as a threat and not a tool you’re going to be replaced. definitely
This was the most balanced take I've seen on AI honestly. I really appreciate you for always providing hope and solutions. And also, I'm craving that tea now.
=D
One of the most intelligent conversations I've seen about AI. It's strange how much this technology completely confuses people who fantasize that they understand culture and creativity.
I don’t believe that AI will “top off”
I think ppl’s expectation for creativity will be reduced. Similar to how comedy is now shorter bc of TikTok. Majority of users don’t miss or care for elaborate or complex media and prefer the short “straight to the punchline videos”
we're just panicking old people that that'll be wrong when we're old people and being laughed at by the younger generations in the year 2085
Honestly I don't believe AI is the danger that people think it is. It can only produce a grouping of other's work. Nothing unique / original. Even still you really have to watch it. Recently there was a legal case where the attorney used AI to write a brief. The AI produced an amazing brief... with all made up law and citations. Resulting in a show cause order why the attorney should not be sanctioned. I have yet to see AI produce anything that is not junk. Even in my job, a computer could probably make the strokes on the computer but I do, but who is going to get up from the desk and put the paper in the printer? AI? Doubt it.
I have been saying a lot of this for a while.
A lot of people have been stuck either on a romanticizing or a pessimistic perspective regarding AI. It's neither the greatest advancement in human history nor its doom. It's a tool, only a game-changing one. And we have to avoid both extremes.
Thinking AI can substitute all creative thinking, all art creation and all intellectual work will only lead to a recursive dynamic where eventually nothing new is truly created since AI keeps being fed the same information. AI depends on new ideas and creations being developed to continue learning and improving.
However, thinking it will end all careers is very unrealistic. Someone still needs to connect the dots. Someone still needs to communicate information in a comprehensive way. Someone still needs to go do social work. Someone needs to provide therapy. Someone needs to talk to patients to determine whether to offer medicinal treatment or perform surgery. A lot of jobs still require the human touch. AI should be a supplement to humanity, not it's substitution.
I’d already come to most of the same conclusions you did just going off what information I could get off the internet. I definitely think some people are way more scared of this than they should be, although it’s probably that they’re looking for something to be scared of
Artists like to say that's stealing art, but I don't think it's like that.
For example, i can ask AI to give me Gordon Ransey dressed with a Pikachu outfit, and it going to give me that, depiste Gordon Ransey never wore this kind of outfit(as far as i know). The point is that generative image AI, learns like us, the "problem" is that AI learns at an insanely fast pace, over a Ginormous set of references.
And AI cannot top us yet, because it does not have any of our senses to detect the sorroundings, seeing a picture of a beach is totally different from being there.
The tip for any artist afraid of AI is to embrace it and learn everything that is possible about it, because if an average joe can do some visually pleasing stuff with it, imagine what you can be capable of doing.
I expect AI will actually elevate us because it will be able to teach everyone on an individual basis and help you find and improve your skills at those things that you actually love to do rather than just whatever will make money. It will also be able to find jobs better than current systems like an actually effective unemployment department.
I would love to know what you think about the creative ability of AI. I don't believe that it has the capacity for creativity nor the ability to make anything truly new. When you type a prompt into an AI image generator, no matter how outlandish the images that it produces are, the actual creative thought was in your head when you typed the prompt.
Another interesting thought is that humans may not be truly creative. We ourselves are merely iterating on what God has already created. All of the colors and landscapes and creatures that we draw are based on what we see in creation. And all of the best stories we write are grounded in the human experience of life--which again, comes from God.
>> ability to make anything truly new
Random number generator can do that. For some reason we don't call it "creativity". On the other hand, picture you take on your phone, every pixel of it is computer-generated, based on input from sensor. Does that count? How about nice slide-shows that Google/Apple creates from you picture library from time to time? Is that creative?
It's such a fascinating argument, seriously. Like in terms of science, we don't create anything, we just discover what already exists. But I think it might be going too far to say we can't do anything original since God has already seen and done everything. I can see that line of thinking leading to nihilism, though I already think that Calvinism can lead there. I'll have to give it more thought, this AI stuff really takes thought experiments like The Chinese Room to a new level.
On the issue of random numbers being creative, it all comes down to how we define creative. Statistically, when you shuffle a deck of cards, you are extremely likely to make a sequence of cards that no other person in history has made. 52 factorial is THAT huge. But would we say that you "created" that sequence? It's an interesting question
@@leonidfro8302 How is a randomly generated number new? Numbers don't exist until a computer has displayed them?
A slideshow formed from my photo library is not creative at all, at least not on the computer's side. It was a creative idea from the developers to write a program that makes a slideshow out of the photos from my library, sure. But the slideshow itself is just a computer doing exactly what it was programmed to do. There's no imagination or original idea in it, i.e. no creativity. Anything interesting in the order of the photos is purely a result of chance.
You seem to be confusing novelty with creativity. When I walk to my car, my feet shift tens of thousands of grains of sand under them into an arrangement that has not existed before and will never exist again. But again, there's zero creativity involved because there was no original thought, imagination, purpose, etc. to the order of the grains of sand.
@@smeissner328 You seems to think that only really really really original thoughts are useful. But world doesn’t work like that.
When people look at google generated slideshow, they do not ask “wait, is it creative?”, they ask “is it nice looking?”. Nobody going to pay someone to create collage if google servers can produce it in virtually zero time for free.
That’s a point.
Also - numbers do not exist. It’s philosophical abstraction. Your rant is misplaced.
@@leonidfro8302 ...what?
My original comment was about whether AI can be truly creative, not whether it's useful.
I made a comment about the philosophical concept of creativity, and you responded to insult me for valuing creativity and thinking philosophically?
Don't artists do the exact same thing as AI? They see a bunch of things, build patterns in their memory and produce art from it. Every artist has already been influenced by other art.
If we want to argue against AI image generation I don't think slamming it for doing what humans do is the right way about it unless we want to get rid of humans too.
It's refreshing to hear a well-reasoned, non-Chicken Little take on AI. However, there are still some big questions. Namely, who benefits from the increased productivity generated by AI? Will the creative person making use of AI reap those gains, or will most of it flow upward to the companies that own the programs? If the internet has taught us anything, it's that the companies offering their AI for 'free' right now will want to monetize them eventually.
Thank you for doing this video. Everyone is being all doomy about AI, but it still doesn't make decisions (for now). It is just a tool.
I don't know why people get confused so often. The fear is not "Skynet", it is the much more mundane corporations using algorithms to shrink the job/gig market. More than anything, it's the speed at which things are changing that is scary. Just three years ago artists were publicly mocking image AI. Nobody's laughing now. There's not enough of the word "yet" in the debate.
A.I. is, after all, just another tool. Those who can adjust and learn how to use it, will be able to move forward; those who don't, will be left behind.
Shouldn't you be talking about stuff you have minimal understanding about? Movies, or something? See, when one who can't write "hello world" program start to talk about CS stuff - it looks stupid.
Where's the lie, though?
Also, C# is a pretty common language, so, clearly, he knows how to write Hello, World.
I've worked in tech for 30 years at all levels and I've been a professional developer for a lot of that time. Greg is not writing an AI from scratch. He is actually doing what a huge number of professional and hobbyist developers do which is leverage frameworks.
I'll say he is right about the ability to solve problems and adding value being key. Most developers I know are bad at answering the question being asked. They code rather than understand the business case. I know that a large amount of my career progression has been the ability to listen to people who want the code and then give them what they need - not always what they think they need. AI will make this better and maybe one day the business analysts with the deep application and business knowledge will use AI to generate new functionality.
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>> They code rather than understand the business case
Maybe because that's a job? In large (1000's of people) organization programmers don't talk with customers at all. Never. They get written requirements.
>> maybe one day the business analysts ... generate new functionality
This trope is as old as Visual Basic. Please don't repeat it.
@@leonidfro8302 Agreed and there will be the devs in big teams who use AI to go faster and create cleaner code to the standards of the organisation with less defects and there will be BA's who use AI to create prototypes or fill gaps.
This will make every stage go faster like cars are faster than horses. I was around before VB and I knew then that the ideal of BA's coding was far fetched but with VB, Delphi and .Net more non techy people DID get into software development. Furthermore an entire industry of consulting ware (Dynamics, Oracle etc) arose where hybrid BA/devs crossed the lines. Hardcore CS is not getting automated anytime soon but software engineering (which is what I see most of) is getting automated and that's a good thing.
goooo suit greag