Re: When will the AI bubble burst?

I don't think AI will go away completely, but I think it's use will shrink down to just the useful bits. However, I do worry about how AI-produced photographs will seep into our lives, though. Used to be, it was really hard to alter an existing photograph (I'm thinking of a black and white Russian photograph from the 60's that had been retouched to remove one of their cosmonauts from a group shot -- maybe because he defected?). Now the camera phones can do that kind of magic on-the-fly. Scary.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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Re^2: When will the AI bubble burst? by NERDVANA (Priest) on Sep 06, 2024 at 01:17 UTC
As pointed out by a Redditor, "Video Evidence" has been a thing for just over 100 years of the entire human experience, and photo evidence just over 200 years. It was a source of truth for a blip of an eye, and now they will be used to tell more convincing lies than anyone ever dreamed.	[reply]
Re^2: When will the AI bubble burst? by LanX (Saint) on Sep 06, 2024 at 19:23 UTC
> remove one of their cosmonauts from a group shot -- maybe because he defected? No, he died horribly after a training accident - burning alive in an high oxygen atmosphere - and the Soviets kept it secret till after the cold war and propaganda removed any reference to him. FWIW: Apollo astronauts had a similar accident years later. Tho, I don't think there was an attempt to keep it secret. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery} Edit Valentin Bondarenko	[reply]
Re^3: When will the AI bubble burst? by cavac (Prior) on Sep 07, 2024 at 08:58 UTC
Tho, I don't think there was an attempt to keep it secret. That would have been near impossible. But NASA and its contractors tried to keep some documents from surfacing that warned of a possibility of an accident like that. Well, they didn't care so much about "the public" as much as they did for what Congress and the House Committee on Appropriations would do to their budget when they found out that NASA played fast and loose with the lifes of their employees. PerlMonks XP is useless? Not anymore: XPD - Do more with your PerlMonks XP Also check out my sisters artwork and my weekly webcomics	[reply]
Re^4: When will the AI bubble burst? by LanX (Saint) on Sep 07, 2024 at 13:53 UTC
Yes, the American space program was a lot about marketing, like many things. So media coverage was crucial. I've seen a documentary once, stating that without the Disney show with Wernherš they wouldn't have had the public backing to begin with a space program. Show was always involved... It's insane how much money was spend. OTOH death by intercontinental weapons matter too. The military aspects were also relevant... ;) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery} š) "The show also contributed, greatly, to public knowledge and interest in the possibility of human-space flight and in some ways led directly to public demand for a three-stage rocket (as was described by Wernher von Braun in "Man in Space") that would eventually be developed into the Saturn V Rocket of the Apollo Program."	[reply]
Re^5: When will the AI bubble burst? by cavac (Prior) on Sep 07, 2024 at 20:47 UTC
Re^6: When will the AI bubble burst? by LanX (Saint) on Sep 08, 2024 at 01:16 UTC

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