There are a handful of ML art subs that have pretty amazing stuff daily. Especially the NSFW ones, which if you've studied any history of media VHS/DVD/Blu-ray/the internet, porn is a major innovation driver because humans are thirsty creatures.
FWIW, the NSFW ones are unstable_diffusion, sdforall, sdnsfw, aipornhub
Hehe, yeah. I'm personally waiting for a model that is good at nonhuman stuff. Not just furries... but the focus seems to be on human content for now.
Atm someone has to model, rig, texture, animate etc. Hopefully shortly we can just connect a bunch of systems together to generate video right from a prompt.
Useful for non-porn stuff as well, but the OP is right; lots of innovation occurs when humans are horny (porn) or angry (war).
Honestly the "This happened in the last week" is more information than anybody can fully wrap their heads around, so you just have to surf the headlines and dig into the few things that interest you.
Some bootstrapping accounts might be @rosstaylor90, @rasbt, @karpathy, @ID_AA_Carmack, @DrJimFan, @YiTayML, @JeffDean, @dustinvtran, @tunguz, @fchollet, @ylecun, @miramurati, @nonmayorpete, @pmarca, @sama.
These are definitely not an authoritative list - just some of the AI names I follow - but, honestly - if any relevant news breaks - your timeline picks it up within minutes - so you just need a good random sample. Your interests will diverge and you'll pick up your own follows pretty quickly.
Your 401k wouldn't need 40 years to build a comfortable retirement, only 4 weeks.
We may drown in oceans of audio, video, novels, poems, films, porn, blue prints, chemical formulas, etc. dreamed up by AI, but to realize these designs, blueprints, formulas, drugs, etc. ("production") we need to actually resource the materials, and have the necessary energy to make it happen.
It will not be AI that catapults humanity. It can definitely mutate human society (for +/-) but it will not (and can not) result in any utopian outcomes, alone. But something like cold fusion, if it actually becomes a practical matter, would result in productivity that would dwarf anything that came before (modulo material resource requirements).
If this is true you can pretty much say goodbye to the concept of money. The inflation this brings about will be legendary
What the?
*googles multi-controlnet"
Wow. These diffusion models are like weeping angels. You really can't take your eyes off of them for long.