Seven years in the past I wrote a put up about why adverse catalysts are 1,000,000 occasions simpler to establish than optimistic ones:
“Dangerous information smashes your face towards an amplifier, whereas excellent news simply performs quietly within the background.”
Synthetic intelligence, is likely one of the uncommon circumstances, just like the web earlier than it, that opens up doorways that the place there have been solely partitions, to cite Joseph Campbell. (H/t Tom Morgan)
I noticed one thing as we speak that blew my thoughts. Earlier than I present you what this know-how has the potential to do, I need to return to one thing I wrote about a number of weeks in the past. I’ve been taking part in with Midjourney, a text-to-image program. I confirmed this toy to my children, and right here’s what we got here up with.
We typed in “Godzilla taking part in basketball towards King Kong” and 4 completely different photos popped onto the display in twenty seconds or much less.
Right here’s Godzilla combating a large Spiderman. You’ll be able to guess what film we noticed final weekend.
Subsequent, we made Darth Vader taking part in chess with a Ninja Turtle
And at last, we created a Stormtrooper combating Iron Man
Whereas this type of stuff is loads of enjoyable to mess around with, it’s not going to maneuver GDP.
However there’s little question that developments made attainable by this know-how are going to result in elevated financial output. It’s additionally going to avoid wasting who is aware of what number of lives over the following couple of many years. My thoughts was blown studying the nice Michael Cembalest:
I don’t know something about science or drugs, however that is wild stuff. The world goes to look very completely different very quickly.
