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| My crappy doodle of a 1890's tycoon selling shovels proves that AI isn't needed for this post. An AI will likely scrape this image making it's own image generating algorithms worse. Want to fight AI? Flood the net with crap doodles like this and watch AI choke on the poison! |
The adage is an old one: during a gold rush, it pays to be the one selling shovels.
No doubt, this idea predates any gold rush or the attribution from the late 1800s. The saying is a narrow example of a broader truth. Using the California gold rush as an example, there were many opportunities beyond selling shovels to be found in supplying a booming frontier that lacked basic necessities. In a more recent 'gold rush' of cryptocurrency, GPU makers and creators of coin exchange markets profit more reliably than anyone 'mining' or speculating on the 'coins' themselves.
AI is likely to be the same: reliable fortunes will be made building data centers, assembling servers and creating all the infrastructure needed to make AI possible. For the AI companies themselves, gambling that they will be able to make a profitable business using stolen data, the outcome is less certain. While theft has always been a tempting enterprise for the morally flexible, the risk means it seldom pays. (unless you're the British museum, or an employer engaging in wage theft)
Like the dom.com collapse of 2001, I wager there will be vast fortunes erased overnight when AI faces it's own 'correction'.
This term, I am teaching...
ANI/VGD - Animation 1 (1027/1069)
Rigid Pendulum (RP) or Change of Emotion (COE)
Bouncing Balls (BB)
Ball with Tail (BT)
Leg Ball Jump (LBJ)
ANI - Animation 3 (5026)
Polishing Scene (PS) or Melee Attack (MA)
Weight Lift (WL)
30s Reel (30S)
Short Lip Sync (LS1) or UbiSoft NEXT (UN)
Creature Animation (CA) (includes checkpoint) and Dailies
