Ai & the Future of Youtube for both creators & viewers

Have you seen Anna Indiana? Someone mentioned it was like A.I. generated it’s own version of Hanna Montana. One of the reporters started making up all kinds of funny names for other artists using geographic states and girl names. Can’t recall examples like Susie Sedona, but there was a list and some of them were comical.

Despite what the critics say, I think it is very dangerous because as the character was talking about her goals and singing about what it was like to be her, eventually, even though you know it’s A.I., eventually, you get into the story and it really can kind of fool you. There are comments about how lame it is but the thing about that is that we already have artists that used looped beats and autotune, so I honestly cannot really tell the difference.

This AI stuff is so much marketing and fear mongering.

The name is not even correct. This is not artificial intelligence. It’s not intelligent at all.  It’s just algorithmic plagiarism. It’s more of a complex automation than anything else.

But let’s be clear.  It does not create anything new.  Even now what it does output that folks refer to as unique is based on what it knows about existing things and hodge podges ideas together based on human input.

Like VR was, AI is a new tool.  And like VR when it came out in the 90s it was hailed as an evolutionary technology that would make everything better.  Well, that did not happen.  Decades later here comes VR again.  And again it will change everything and be used everywhere.  Did that happen the second time?  No.  It’s a tool that has use in the correct applications, and AI is the same.

Most of what you see/hear about AI is fear mongering so that certain folks can manipulate the situation for self enrichment and so “news” sites can write scary articles so that you will click them.   The rest is marketing.

This is the state of AI now.  That is not to say further advancements don’t lead to something truly horrible and uncontrollable. This is something society should keep an eye on. But until AI is actually artificial intelligence there is not much to be concerned about unless you put it in control of certain things.

I doubt humans will ever directly create artificial intelligence.  I believe what would happen is we create an advanced learning automation that starts writing itself and quickly self evolves into an actual AI.  The frightening part there in my mind is that would happen so quickly we would never see it coming until it was far too late.