In other words, you can just think of all these things (cash grabs and otherwise) as an effect of the rapid advancements in AI, in this case manifesting as a growth area of economic activity. As another poster said, others are working on medical applications, climate models, etc. It's not a zero-sum game on the application side.
Think of what you’re asking from it. You don’t ask coke to solve corona or google to solve world hunger. None of those issues are bottlenecked by AI. If you want to solve those issues, you shouldn’t expect AI researchers to fix them, you can be that change.
However, the core problem is that we have solutions for all these problems with technology that exists today:
- energy can be produced by solar, wind and for baseload geothermal and biogas. We might need to shift certain high-consumption industries such as smelters to seasonal and time-flexible production though, to accomodate a lack of solar power in winter and at night.
- pollution is a solved problem as well. Place filters on the exhaust stacks of industries that absolutely need some kind of burning stuff, transition ICE vehicles to electric vehicles and eventually, switch a lot of the traffic load of individual cars to a mesh of public transit (tramways and light rail), to remove the emissions caused by tires.
- affordable housing is a solved problem as well. Build socialized, community-owned housing like Vienna does, nationalize large landlords, improve infrastructure in rural areas to remove pressure on urban housing, and regulate where large employers can set up shop to avoid concentrations that cannot reasonably be supplied with workers and traffic.
- content moderation is a plain and simple matter of employing enough people
- "loneliness epidemic"... that's the only tough one. We do know what causes loneliness, and a part of that is that young people have to move across the country, often enough across continents, to find gainful employment. Fixing rural infrastructure should help a bit, as should better availability of decent affordable housing - IIRC, a contributing factor both in Japan and Italy was that young people can't afford to move out of their parents' homes or if, then only into essentially sheds, so neither is conductive to invite a potential partner to.
The problem is, politicians today are not driven by what science and history has shown to be successful, they are driven by party ideology and populist bullshit. That leads them to take decisions that make situations objectively worse.
Maybe it can be used for electrode chemistry as well.
I think the main thing to take into account that many of these problems and organisations still live in an age of 200X tech, so already implementing current age practices can result in great improvements (although this does not result in flashy press announcments or papers).
I volunteer at an animal shelter. If AI tools can free up 10 hours/week from my schedule, that’s 10 extra hours I can potentially volunteer
I think if an capable AI in the future is given the opportunity to fix this with zero restrictions, Then most likely it is going to uproot entire system of governance along with several ultra-rich and powerful people.
Hence they'll try to never let it happen.
I can assure you, I am not one of the world’s best minds. To me, this feels like gluing APIs together, with a bit less cursing than in my PHP days.
Startups and media business are looking to make a windfall on AI generated art, music, code, writing, and other services. The payment models will be subscriptions, pay per use, and other models that make more money the more content is produced.
But there's still no AI (with associated mechanics) that can fold laundry.
(I think the latter would be really useful.)
We're actually really close to general robot agents that operate in your home. Check out googleAI's saycan & RT-1 systems
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/rt-1-robotics-transformer-....
Unless I can find a model I can verify has zero networking ability and isn't gathering and storing data for somebody else, no thanks!
FoldiMate was a California-based company developing a robotic laundry-folding machine founded in 2012. Their clothes folding machine was aimed to enter the market by the end of 2019. *In 2021, the company folded*.
Emphasis is mine. Great Pun!
It was called buzz robotics and had a couple posts make it to the front page here. Even got a YC interview.
I haven’t gotten around to writing a post mortem but I’ll just say - it’s a very hard problem to solve given the dexterity and safety requirements.
Maybe one day.
Much more useful than driving a car, because in a car you're mostly idling anyway so you might as well drive.
You gotta also buy the things science provides!
I think it’ll be a long time before automated laundry folding is commercially viable at household scale (factory scale is another matter) simply because as other, easier, more lucrative activities are automated, the cost of “unskilled” human labour will be driven down faster than the cost of the equipment required to fold laundry.
We’re not very far from some Satoshi putting it all together.
Edit: Found it, really should've been in the blog post...
There’s still competitive advantage to owning, training, and gatekeeping access to models. MidJourney and DallE are both superior to Stable Diffusion along many axes.
Monetizing models is tricky because it’s so cheap to run locally but so expensive in the cloud. Except if you release your model such that it can run locally all advantage is lost.
I wonder if there is a way to split compute such that only the last 10% runs in the cloud?
1. Commodity hardware can do the inference on a single instance (must be true if a user device can do it).
2. It’s apparently possible to run a video game streaming service for $10/month/user.
3. So users should be able to generate unlimited images (one at a time) for $10/month?
Maybe the answer is the DallE/Midjourney models running in the cloud are super inefficient and Stable Diffusion is better. So the services will need to care about optimizing to get that kind of performance. But it’s not inherently expensive because they run it on the cloud.
Can you expand on this a bit? The way i'm thinking, that is only the case if you need low-latency. And in that case, it seems you just need to charge to cover compute.
We're running Stable Diffusion on an eks cluster and it evens out the load across calls and prevents over-resourcing.
If latency isnt an issue, it can be run on non-gpu machines. If you're looking for someone under $300 or $400/mo, then I agree it may be an issue.
On that note, I havent checked whether there are lambda/fargate style options which provide GPU power, to achieve consumption based pricing tied to usage, but that might be a route. Can anyone speak to this?
> To enable Bunny AI, simply enable the feature under the Bunny AI panel and start generating!
Where is this exactly?
Also, are the other AI image generation tools that can be used now at low prices? I've tried some of the free ones, but they have two hour wait times sometimes!
Though I guess that still has the underlying limitation of compute shortage so could take a while
for a in `seq 1000 2000`; do wget "https://bunnynet-avatars.b-cdn.net/.ai/img/dalle-256/avatar/email-${a}/rabbit.jpg?width=128&hiEbunny=is_this_secure_though" ; doneI wonder about auto-generated captchas perhaps? or are these going to be easy to reverse?
On a side note: I’d love to switch from Cloudflare to bunny, but it’s missing a WAF. We were promised it from bunny for a long while, but didn’t see it yet. Personally I would imagine it being a more core feature for a CDN than AI bunnies on the edge, but I guess I’m old and boring.
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https://88stacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/car3-117e275...
> Bunny AI is currently available free of charge during the experimental preview release and is enabled for every bunny.net user. We want to invite everyone to have a look and play around, and share the results with us. Bunny AI is released as an experimental feature, and we would love to hear your feedback.
> Bunny AI, an experimental multi-model image generation engine
do they mean "multi-model" or "multi-modal"?
