Or... maybe we could not do that? Just saying? And instead focus on actually studying true AI and its implications at every level instead of just developing propaganda machines with the consumers' money?
This would imply that they're not surrounded by other pots filled with water which is (varying degrees of) boiling. We don't really have a Socialist Utopia meeting spot, let's say.
Beyond that, eloping requires a not insignificant amount of money (as a Romanian, I can say that homes/apartments aren't cheap here, either, and we're not exactly L.A.)
And at the other end of the line, immigration's not exactly thought of with fondness, even in Europe. Don't forget, we're stewing in our own pot even if the heat's still relatively tolerable.
Wouldn't go so far as calling it a work of art, but I remember this one time in 9th or 10th grade when our Plastic Arts (technically a general overview of art history and practical exercises for techniques, practically it was just painting whatever, in various shapes and sizes) teacher had us paint religious iconography on slabs of wood. Saints, to be more specific.
I won't touch upon how utterly pissed my mother was at having to hunt down an ~A4 sized plank within a week (this was before the prevalence of Hyperstores). The thing just came out looking... wrong... It was supposed to be St. George, I believe, and it came out looking like an emaciated and woefully distraught Gandalf the Grey with a spotlight shining in from behind.
I remember this one being extra-bad because, besides basically having had no real training in painting throughout grade school, the subject matter in itself spoke nothing to me. I wasn't absolutely horrible, as I used to do a lot of sketching and developed a relatively neat hand by that time, but I was thoroughly within the "exorcise your trauma through drawing biomechanical mutilations" phase of my artistic development, let's call it.
It was also the first time when being creative felt like a horrid chore.
Edit: there is no evidence of said work, because I threw it away the instant I got home. As an agnostic, I get the feeling both God and St. George would have agreed with me...
If you're talking about AGI, potentially any form of art would be at its grasp, maybe even some which may not necessarily look like art to us.
If you're talking about the generative models of today, they are incapable of producing art, because they are incapable of emotional intent and expression.
Even Warhol was driven by disdain, and the ironically arty bit was how sort of stripped of art his art was as a result of his disdain.
This was my exact thinking the moment I realised I, yet again, needed a GPU upgrade (thanks, Unreal 5...). Which is why I seared my soul and dished for a 4080 Super, with the hopes that I'll be covered for a decade at least. The 40s at least seem to still be built mainly for pretty pictures.
Genuinely not worth paying attention to this nonsense. Maybe - MAYBE - AMD will pull a Comrade and will shift full focus on creating genuinely good and progressively better GPUs, meant for friggin' graphics processing and not this "AI" tumor. But that's a big-ass "maybe."
I genuinely think that's a noble sentiment and I share that concern. However, this would entail making a deal with the Devil at this point, and pretty much literally.
Most if not all relevant models nowadays are owned by outwardly unscrupulous people, which means any correct interaction we have with their models only serves to build up the Devil's throne.
It is a downright tragedy that people will suffer as a result of said models, but that fault is not on us. Besides the fact that they're essentially stealing labour and data in order to train their models, they're also using them to dish out propaganda, to replace workers and throwing them in a ditch, to cause yet another financial bubble which'll flush the toilet when it inevitably pops - again.
We need to let them fail, otherwise we are just encouraging others to use us in the same exact ways.
I don't know what pisses me off more, that Facebook does this kind of stuff, or that they're utter snively cowards when called out for their crap moves.
Yep, NOW it's a problem, though! Because it's someone else doing the same thing, someone who isn't part of the human centipede starting at Trump's colon.
Capitalism pretty much takes survival out of living. And I don't think we should go back to "if you want to eat, you'll have to wrestle and kill that boar" levels, but we need a bit more space to develop our relationship with life. As it is, it's like one of those helicopter parents who doesn't let anything external touch you, then you turn into goop once the helicopter stops patrolling.
We don't treat ourselves like humans anymore, we treat ourselves like the chickens grown at scale in industrial warehouses. And we don't even treat those chickens like chickens, it's Product all the way down.
Yep, we've most certainly shifted too far in the opposite direction. I mean, all that's required for most aspects of life nowadays is an internet connection. If one has that, there's no need to leave the house - I speak from experience, I spent 2020-through-2023 100% locked in my apartment, only needing to leave when seeking medical services. Even the jobs which still require in-person action are slowly being replaced with automation (see delivery bots and drones, self-driving cabs, even LLM-based medical diagnoses).
The only thing I think differs in our views is that I consider hunting and gathering to have been replaced with other activities, like farming, animal rearing, construction, general industry, generation of literature, centralisation of information, basically everything which makes our species persist and advance. It's still the same basic principle, as in having lost a lot of essential activities and their benefits.
Complexity is an inevitable result of development, and we've developed so much that our needs have both expanded and developed with us. I don't think either hunting or gathering, or both would be enough for us anymore. I most certainly also believe that we don't need mass production at the scales we're seeing today, but our complexity demands similar complexity in the palette of professions (not my favourite word to express the concept of "life work," but there it is...).
I think what we need is to walk back on automation and rethink the whole assembly line bit, give humans some space to specialise should their system need it. Contemporary Society seems better suited to serve people who tend to become Jacks of All Trades, but that's just one point on a huge spectrum.
Does this apply if I don't even know what day it is?