Seven years in the past I wrote a publish about why destructive catalysts are 1,000,000 occasions simpler to establish than optimistic ones:
“Unhealthy information smashes your face towards an amplifier, whereas excellent news simply performs quietly within the background.”
Synthetic intelligence, is without doubt 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 right this moment that blew my thoughts. Earlier than I present you what this know-how has the potential to do, I wish to return to one thing I wrote about a couple of weeks in the past. I’ve been enjoying 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 enjoying basketball towards King Kong” and 4 totally different footage popped onto the display in twenty seconds or much less.
Right here’s Godzilla preventing an enormous Spiderman. You’ll be able to guess what film we noticed final weekend.
Subsequent, we made Darth Vader enjoying chess with a Ninja Turtle
And eventually, we created a Stormtrooper preventing Iron Man
Whereas this kind of stuff is a variety of enjoyable to mess around with, it’s not going to maneuver GDP.
However there’s little doubt that developments made doable by this know-how are going to result in elevated financial output. It’s additionally going to save lots of who is aware of what number of lives over the following couple of a long time. My thoughts was blown studying the nice Michael Cembalest:
I don’t know something about science or medication, however that is wild stuff. The world goes to look very totally different very quickly.
