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An example of where AI generated prompts result in awesome AI generated images:

https://twitter.com/GuyP/status/1598020781065527296?s=20&t=sODodeedRrIlUZtBcV-SqQ

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Enjoyed this read. I'm always on the look out for business models and frameworks around AI. Through the power of using multiple AI services, I'm able to efficiently run a basic solostudio. I can write a song fast, write copy to sell it, make graphics, spin up a landing page, and create a promotional video with the help of AI all in under a day.

This wasn't possible until this year. I'm sure things will continue to improve little by little in the future. I can imagine all-in-one services that can do most of the above under one label (that seems to be what the GitHub repo you linked is working toward) but I'm not sure what the business model looks like for people with that capability. We'll have to come up with new value models to adjust to it.

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This was fantastic. I've been describing a similar "anything-to-anything machine" idea as a new ground for communication. The tradeoff between communicating at scale and communicating with high fidelity is minimized when I can losslessly translate between modalities. My only caveat is that even in the third scenario what you would have is the bifurcation of remaining human tasks. No matter how good an AI is at recombining itself (at least with current techniques) it's not gonna solve Moravec's Paradox and do human intuitive tasks well. Similarly at the height of decision making actions aren't always about knowing what's best but having the right intuition. CEOs and Carpenters will always be with us.

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Excellent Post!

When do you think we will transition to Era 2 and 3? What are the impacts on human jobs in these two cases?

We are some way away from Era 2. We may require new algorithms, the next level of computing, and more quality/quantity data (In case we run out of the data, it may be synthetic data or data created by other models and fed to these models). What do you think?

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Simply brilliant and even visionary essay. No mistake in subscribing to this newsletter! I would love to read your thoughts someday on the possibilities of an AI implemented post-scarcity civilization a lá Iain Banks's Culture.

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