Adam MosseriIn my job I spend a fair amount of time with both smart people who are incredibly skeptical of AI and its potentials and other equally intelligent people who are wildly optimistic. One way I square this circle is accepting that we all tend to overestimate what can happen in the short term and underestimate what can be accomplished over the long run.
The use cases I'm most interested in are around creativity. People often talk about ideas that look like a button that makes a finished video and shares it on your behalf, but that's not what this looks like. People have taste and emotional resonance that AI can't replicate. Instead, for creators, AI will show up as series tools of tools that make it easier for more people to be more creative.
Imagine a tool that translates your audio into another language and syncs your lips so you can grow in another country. Imagine an AI that gives you insight about the patterns of what's resonated and what's not about what you've shared in the past. Imagine one that reads over a brand deal contract and gives you an objective take on how favorable the terms are. AI doesn't need to disintermediate the creator. If we're in, we can find all sorts of ways for the technology to empower creatives.
Darius Kazemithis is such a cursed take in the specific examples even if I agree with the broad point of ML being useful in certain contexts
Me: let's use hammers to build houses instead of bash people's heads in
Meta guy: Some people are pessimistic about hammers. Some people are optimistic about hammers. I personally believe that we can use hammers to marginally perpetuate the shitty world we all live in
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