So my previous post was locked, hidden from the community and waiting moderator review -shrug- I guess I could have been more human about the post rather than letting my feelers get in the way.
Let’s be real here - YES, I am worried about the future and ai - who isn’t? Many websites and even Asmongold himself did a stream about Blizzards plan to invest in A.i technologies to improv on concepts, character models and more. I understand they are ‘tools’ to help with work flow such as a.i. tool can very well save time on the key sequencing part because let’s face it if you know programs like Blender or Unreal Engine - Key Sequencing takes time depending on the project at hand.
That is not the only reason I cancelled my 2023 Blizzcon plans, but the other reason is that I decided to skip it and see how this years Blizzcon went, watch the Q and A maybe someone will ask about a.i. and the future of job opportunities.
I feel hopeful, but not gonna lie either that I do feel scared/insecure about all this because yea I got learning disabilities and my ability to understand coding is complex.
I enjoy art, I enjoy 3D modeling in unreal and Blender.
Just trying to stay positive about the whole thing which is why I don’t watch TV news, but I do keep in touch with the progression of a.i. because it is a threat in a way to many job industries.
And they’re pretty awful at the moment. At least the ones in other fields, like delivery drones and whatnot.
The best robots we have are the ones that build cars- something that’s easily better off not having humans do instead. It’s a toxic, dangerous process.
Wouldn’t worry about robots replacing us anytime soon- even the A.I. made art and music is ‘off’ and not really measuring up to anything man-made, at least right now.
I mean do we really think these artist hand draw every texture or do they use programs to fill in spots and copy/paste or re-use certain things to not only make it easier but faster.
Did you know that 60% of today’s job descriptions did not exist in 1940? In 80 years, a couple of job generations, we added thousands of jobs that no one knew about in 1940. Guess what will happen by the year 2100? Yup, thousands of jobs will exist that don’t exist today.
Technology eliminating jobs is way overblown. Even after the automated technology was developed, it took telephone companies nearly 40 years to mostly phase out the dial “0” operators. In the meanwhile, jobs were created to build, install and maintain those automated systems.
Ironically, despite all the hullabaloo by the Luddites regarding automated looms, artisanal hand weaving remains in demand and pays well.
Honestly, if one’s job can be replaced by a ChatGPT Large Language Model (mistakenly called A.I.) it is probably for the best as it is tedious work subject to a lot of errors, fact checking and woefully poor subtlety. It is just an improved packaging of the web crawlers that have existed for as long as search engines have been around. At its core it is nothing new, just much, much better at it.
When I entered the workforce in 1977, my specialized field of Information Technology (I.T.) simply did not exist. There wasn’t a PC as we know it and a very large number of mainframes and mini-computers still required punch cards and the program had to run in the available RAM, which, back then was a massive 4 Mb on the classic PDP 11.
Chill and enjoy thinking that when you retire, it may well be from a career that doesn’t even exist yet.
They have told us our entire company will be replaced by AI within the next year leaving only the CEO and executives. Projected unemployment to reacch 95% across the globe.
The future is now.
Yes, there are many artists that do hand paint their own diffuse maps.Most use a drawing tablet for this as it’s basically a digital art pad.
They are called concept artists.
That is where your stuff to copy paste with originates.
AI isn’t drawing the original images.It just downloads other artists work and blends them with other images tagged as being the same genre then applies a color palette to the finished blend. It “learns” by recording what images the users keep and which they discard. This why you see trademarks and watermarks in the images alot.
I don’t mind AI so much, I do mind when it steals my work, applies a few PS filters to it then claims it has “created”.
My god. There is no idea more terrifying, more threatening, or more incidious than the idea of giving the idiots who own cars… the ability to drive ANYWHERE with them.
You would not be safe ANYWHERE except an underground bunker.
People cannot manage to drive 10mph in rush hour without driving into each other. My old city had a 250+ car pileup on the highway the first snowfall EVERY SINGLE YEAR in a city that saw heavy snow 4-6 months a year.
People drive over curbs,up hills, into store fronts.
That’s not even getting into all the people who drive recklessly normally, or don’t even pay attention to where they are going cuz they are on their phone, or don’t ever maintain their vehicle until it literally blows up mechanically one way or another.
NOTHING is more terrifying than the idea of “flying cars”
