Are you joking?

We were not even able to just create random videos by just text promoting a few years back and now this.

The progress is crazy.

Why do you dismiss this?

Not dismissing, but being realistic. I observed all the AI tools, usually amaze most people initially by showing capabilities never seen before. Then people realise their limitations, ie what capabilities are still missing. And they're like: "oh, this is no genie in a bottle capable of satisfying every wish. We'll still have to work to obtain our vision..." So the magic fades away, and the world returns to normal, but now with an additional tool very useful in some situations :)

I'm still amazed.

The progress doesn't slow down right now at all.

This is probably one of the most exciting developments in the world besides the Internet.

And Geminis news regarding the 1 million token window shows were we are going.

This will impact a lot of people faster than a lot of people realize

I agree. Skepticism usually serves people well as a lot of new tech turns out to be just hype. Except when it is not and I think this is one of those few cases.

Not who you're replying to but this is a toy.

AI won't make artistic decisions that wow an audience.

AI won't teach you something about the human condition.

AI will only enable higher quarterly profits from layoffs until GPU costs catch up.

What the fuck is the point of AI automating away jobs when the only people who benefit are the already enormously wealthy? AI won't be providing time to relax for the average worker, it will induce starvation. Anything to prevent will be stopped via lobbying to ensure taxes don't rise.

Seriously, what is the point? What is the point? What the fuck is there to live for when art and humanities is undermined by the MBA class and all you fucking have is 3 gig jobs to prevent starvation?

I believe ai and full automatisation is critical for a Star Trek society.

We are not very good in providing anything reasonable today because capitalism is still way to strong and manual laber still way to necessary.

Nonetheless look at my country Germany: we are a social state. Plenty of people get 'free' money and it works.

The other good thing: there are plenty of people who know what good is (good art etc) but are not able to draw. The can also express themselves. AI as a tool.

If we as society discover that there will be no really new music or art happening I don't know what we will do.

Plenty of people are well entertained with crap anyway.

Problem isn't the tool but with the tools using the tool.

It's not ML fault that we don't have UBI, it's voters' faults.

Sure there are limitations but this is still absurdly impressive.

My benchmark is the following: imagine if someone 5 years ago told you that in 5 years we could do this, you would think they were crazy.

I would not. Five (six, seven?) years ago, we had style transfer with video and everyone was also super euphoric about that. If I compare to those videos, there is clearly progress but it is not like we started from zero 2 years ago.

I don't really know what you mean by "euphoric", this is a term I only know from drugs. Can you define it?

"Blissful/happy", which is why the word euphoria is often abused to be sinister

It means "extremely happy", but it's usually used to refer to a particular moment in time (rather than a general sentiment), and so the word sounds a bit out of place here, to me.