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Both of Baudelaire’s criticisms were reasonable, and the same thing happened again when AI image generation showed up. You think the opponents look ridiculous b
by uonr 5d ago
Both of Baudelaire’s criticisms were reasonable, and the same thing happened again when AI image generation showed up. You think the opponents look ridiculous because you’re viewing the history from the winner’s side.
As for “the public,” people had a real demand for photography as a way to record things, which is also why it won. There is no comparable public demand for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem.
- bonoboTP 4d ago> There is no comparable public demand for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem. It's a capability demo, not the main point. There is plenty of demand for intelligence on tap. These flashy results are necessary though, otherwise people keep claiming AI is just hype, it can't do anything etc. So they need something to point at. And it seems to be working because the anti-AI narrative has changed from the previous stance that it's just the new NFT that will simply go away to how it will replace human intellectual work and will be bad for artists and desk workers.