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We have always lived in the cyberpunk future, and you need to learn to use AI tools now not because they’re right, but because they will not be forgotten.

The next wave of stuff for a new generation to grow up in will be intelligently interacting with information systems “engines”. You need to learn how to use search engines well, in addition to stuff like AI art and whatnot. This isn't something that I want to see happen for capitalist reasons. I am giving you a warning about time, if you're young. Why? Because AI-driven interfaces are coming up through stuff like OpenAI's chatbot. The actual use of AI-driven art won't be to replace artists for individual art pieces. No one will really care about that by the time it's done. Eventually, you'll be able to tell an AI interface a scene with actions between characters, and the thing will produce that scene. With enough tweaking, it can be pretty reliable for a specific purpose. That means that there will be specifically designed bots where the underlying “personality” of…


The next wave of stuff for a new generation to grow up in will be intelligently interacting with information systems “engines”. You need to learn how to use search engines well, in addition to stuff like AI art and whatnot. This isn't something that I want to see happen for capitalist reasons. I am giving you a warning about time, if you're young.

Why? Because AI-driven interfaces are coming up through stuff like OpenAI's chatbot. The actual use of AI-driven art won't be to replace artists for individual art pieces. No one will really care about that by the time it's done. Eventually, you'll be able to tell an AI interface a scene with actions between characters, and the thing will produce that scene. With enough tweaking, it can be pretty reliable for a specific purpose. That means that there will be specifically designed bots where the underlying “personality” of the bot, that being what causes it to produce a certain style, or having a certain dataset, or whatever, will be the product.

Among other purposes, this thing will actually take input from other systems, as a module in a larger system rather than from the user directly, to do stuff like have a billboard that generates its own content based on information obtained via data mining.

For example, I propose to you a vending machine. This vending machine has branding that includes various jingles, images, whatever. It could talk potential customers, or not, or do whatever. It includes a camera that only captures demographic information, so that is completely okay and legal. No personally identifiable information, just things like clothing style, gait, skin color, estimated mood, reactions, and so on. Based on the intersections of all the varied demographic elements against the reactions using different advertising styles, the vending machine can attempt to tailor its advertising based on a guess at what kind of advertising would work best for the person the camera picks up. Is it a happy family? Play a family-oriented ad.

Not the family-oriented ad, created by actors in a studio, with cameras, or animators. A family-oriented ad whipped up on-the-fly by the vending machine based on its own specific installation location, absent of any need for cloud networking or whatever. The animations don't have to be incredibly complex, because the design phase is done in training.

Your immediate understanding of how to interact with devices like this, and how to get real results with search engines, AI chatbots, and so on, should not be some magical thing to you. That will be you soon, but you will be the boomer with a cell phone. Instead of that, it will be you with this new kind of technological interface. You need to learn to interact with it intelligently, not like it's some magical device, or you will be lost soon enough.

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