The end of physical media is neigh

we are becoming a world without any control at all over our music or movie culture.

Nu? Market demand controls these things. Always has always will.

Very great posts! thanks

i will only add that A.I. computing intelligence has nothing to do with human intelligence with living body/soul/spirit ...

Then A.I. can only kill human culture and pilot human creativity toward the Hive model...

Our social fabric is immature totally, we dont understand it, and we are not ready to become the craddle for this birthing, a "monster" presented to us as if not a true god at least as an inevitable progress...

We are the tools of A.I. not the reverse ...

LLM is built by absorbing human language and creativity and spew it out like the Bill Gates steak improper to human needs...

I have 40 years of software engineering experience and have studied AI extensively for investment purposes and can safely say that no one knows where this will lead culturally. But culture is a secondary problem. AI will first cause economic upheaval and that will have to be worked out before we settle into a new culture and leisure endeavors. There are several post-labor economic theories, all of which can either be easily debunked or proven incompatible with human psychology. As for "art", it won’t make sense for humans to do what AI can far more easily do. How many people still make homemade butter?

What humans will do for a sense of fulfillment is another unknown. Physical accomplishment will still be a thing, but most people aren’t motivated by physical accomplishment now. People without physical or dextrous hobbies will likely be unfulfilled. Or then again, AI being smarter than humans may see a path forward that I and other humans don’t see.

As for musicians and actors, they are toast. Lionsgate has already contracted with Runway AI to model their library of movies so they can make new movies using AI. And tools like Sora are getting very close to realism.

If you doubt the potential of AI, or just want to know more about how it works, I suggest a 27-minute video on a YouTube channel called 3BLUE1BROWN with a thumbnail named Inside an LLM. It is accessible without programming knowledge, but gives you a good understanding of why AI can be smarter than humans. I think this level of knowledge is essential to plan your life in a post-AI world. 99% of people do not understand what’s about to happen to them and are about to be blindsided.

"it is impossible to ask for U2?"   AI is doing you a BIG favor!!!

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This news is enough to make me want to whinny. 

By  the way listen to this video as suggested by our friend and if you conclude A.I. is "intelligent" in a human sense you need to read books , a lot of them in all fields :

Language were called a pre-intelligent engine by the great linguist Gustave Guillaume  80 years ago , language in human is grounded in meanings whose levels are between the gesturing body the society and Nature.

In A.I. as it is for now it is a stastistical engine able of artificial attention(transformers) which make it able to refocus his direction according to any prompt as content...

Calling A.I. more intelligent than human is an abuse of the concept by  conflating thinking and perceiving with computations..

Something maybe  cute for  some engineers in need of funds in this race  but ridiculous for philosophers or artists or true scientists...

A.I. is the speaking web with an artificial ego...All information exceed any human brain...This has nothing to do with intelligence in human term nor with the soul (affective life) not with the spirit life for which A.I. cannot even have a word because spirit life is only silent ...LLM are designed to fool us as "normal" person by the refined adjustment they are able to makes in one second and giving us the wishes answers... The alignment problem is not solvable no more than the hermeneutical circle by computations....it is illusory...

There is another problem about A.I. in which i will not enter which is related to A.I. already existing and acting  in the cosmos, in John C. Lilly , Rudolf Steiner and Nigel Kerner among other interesting writers. 3 convergent perspectives exactly but with no concertation between them at all ...

And there is also the spiritual problem linked to the relation between  all spiritual entities in the cosmos and their relation. Listen to Jerry Marzinsky psy in the most hard jail for 40 years. Ouija board game here will give you a hint ...

What is fascinating to me is the parallell between coding language by numbers and the Godel theorems meanings....

Most engineers dont see what was clear for Roger Penrose in his books "Emperor's new mind " the brain dont compute...I read it 37 years ago...I recommend it to you...Godel the greatest logical mind since Aristotle thought the same...

And in India right now Anirban Bandyopadhyay the writer of "nanobrain" a book so astounding i felt off my chair 4 years ago, create non Turing machine rooted in Godel insight ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZh9BOjkQs