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Originally Posted by Quoth
No, I don't feel that at all. Certainly some aspects of AI over the last 50 years approx are useful. OCR was once thought to be AI. Maybe it still is. It's certainly much better now than the groundbreaking launch by Ray Kurtzwiel in 1974 (nearly 50 years ago!). I think he works on AI in Google/Alphabet now. OCR'ed stuff still needs proofed by humans.
I'm just suspicious of hype and of course as Charlie Stross might say on the subject "follow the money".
If all this AI is so brilliant how come it's as difficult to spell check and grammar check as the mid 1980s? Proofing is aided by being able to read and annotate on eink.
I'm not fearing any kind of Skynet or Minority report scenario, just offering an antidote to hype.
Certainly the current crop of chatbots are more entertaining than the ones in the 1960s to 1990s.
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Waaah, the first of what I'm sure will be many AI-written and created books has just been thrown over the transom; I'm waiting on a reply to our quote now.
The author wrote a humorous 1-2-3... sort of Guide for adults--by which I mean it's illustrated but it's not a kids' book. Anyway, all the illustrations,
every single one and they account for
half the content--are AI-generated. They're GORGEOUS and charming.
This doesn't portend well for artists.
Hitch