What? Bill Gates is a fine person. I know this because the decades long multi mullion dollar influence campaign to make me think this has been working to perfection!
It is not true at all. I have already seen more new styles since summer from Stable Diffusion than in the last 20 years of going to art galleries.
Every artist has their influences. If they come up with something new it is from a unique combination of their influences. Stable Diffusion makes this literally trivial.
A big difference is that a good artist does this in a meaningful way, creating novelty in a way that triggers a specific emotional impact or conveys a message. With generative AI, it’s all statistical sampling with any “meaning” inferred after the fact. But I do believe AI will be invaluable in helping artists explore idea space and refine their vision.
I think you just discovered that art galleries either show art by dead artists (can't be a new style) or zombie formalism. I haven't seen anything groundbreaking new by Stable Diffusion or DALL-E. Well, sometimes it produced funny images because it doesn't understand what it's actually "painting".
Everyone in this thread has already recognized how many faces so far today with their eyes and nothing blew up?
Look at the personal computer? It is just a better place to hold your recipes. We basically live in 1980 + having a more efficient way to hold your cookie recipes instead of in cumbersome recipe books.
It's not that simple. Scale and ease of use matters. That is why when the government attempted to cross-reference the various administrative (mostly paper) files in a single database, around a single social security number, using a computer, it caused a huge scandal, the project was abandoned, and an independent regulatory agency was created in order to prevent something like this from happening again (and also deal with other data privacy issues).
I just picture someone worrying about people dialing phone numbers while driving in the car in 1990? What a stupid thing to worry about since obviously the cord won't be long enough.
People aren't going to want to have a phone on them at all times anyway and risk possibly breaking or losing the phone. It will just hang on the wall like the rotary phone in a stand so you know where it is but you won't have to worry about the pesky cord anymore.
Technological progress is a linear process that is always good with zero higher order cultural effects based on how new features are used in practice.
Face recognition? What could possibly go wrong. I recognize faces literally every day!
I have dated so many divorced and separated women that just couldn't deal with the video games anymore. Way more so than financial problems. Financial problems didn't make them feel actively and completely ignored day in and day out.
Almost like the ultimate aphrodisiac in 2022 is a guy who hates video games.
I'm sorry you feel this way, and it's easy to become cynical after several failures on that front (I'm assuming) — I know many happily married men with amazing wives who generously allow their husbands to play video games for a reasonable amount of time, and they have children too. It's not universal, but ultimately they found women who respect them.
Another parallel I draw is: many women binge shows on Netflix and Disney+, or binge-read fiction novels, or [insert their own hobbies here] — and they especially have no room to criticize men for playing video games. Heck, many women have taken up playing games too when they find the right genre.
> Yea that is just not going to happen.
I actually dated someone who was quite a homebody herself, but things didn't work out for other reasons, not so much our lifestyles.
If not receiving constant attention counts as being ignored, then I'm not sure what to tell them.
To me, happiness as we age is making sure that we still have dreams and goals. My goal is to make my 50s the most exciting and interesting decade of life and then try to top it in my 60s.
Even if I don't reach the goal that is besides the point.
I am also though not acting out a romance novel with a wife, kids and living happily ever after. Disney is not going to make a movie that the prince gets divorced and lives happily ever after being single , no kids, and the freedom to do whatever they want.
I am curious too but the article is in the style of an English major and I just can't stand that style of writing. It is like the literary equivalent to guitar shredders.
I know he was a doctor and that is obviously an odd career trajectory but I don't know much beyond that.
The main problem is Meta has no imagination and is just going to play it safe and G rated.
The killer VR apps are all in creating a rated R type Metaverse that is seedy and dangerous. 80s Manhattan style, not safe for work or children.
That would be something wild and create a huge buzz. Instead, we have Horizon Worlds.
Basically, Starbucks with fake coffee.
The only thing I like about Meta is trading the stock over the next few years as Wall Street goes into convolutions over the burn rate of Reality Labs at each earnings release.
Brilliant. All the American kids can hire Chinese students to take tests for them because it will be a great lesson in how the real world operates junior!
So many utterly ridiculous comments in this thread.
What about the children?