Submitted by Ohigetjokes t3_xsgzhl in singularity
Text, images, video, and 3D models on command are a good start. But they're only a start.
Prompt-based toys and furniture will come. Then prompt-based machinery, buildings, electronics, chemicals. Your robots will accept voice commands and run errands, transform landscapes, repair and redesign your thrift shop finds.
And your expertise in crafting prompts will determine how effectively it all works.
You build a prompt, send the command, and systems you don't fully understand create a change in the world.
Aka... you speak magic words, and your magic spell is cast. Effectively.
I used to think Hogwarts was bizarre - how are these children ONLY being taught magic? No math class? English? History?
But... in the future it won't make any sense to teach these things. They'll be much better served by learning how to leverage the AIs around them. Many subjects will be entirely redesigned to teach them to build better prompts for creation of whatever they might desire and information retrieval.
Aka: learn to cast better spells, become a better wizard.
So, neat. But this also ushers in an entirely new type of "magical thinking" - one that inevitably will disconnect itself from the buts and bolts of what's actually happening when those "spells" are "cast".
New religions and new forms of zealotry will arise. People will read into small coincidences and incidental behaviors of the AIs and claim hidden, secret knowledge based entirely on confirmation bias. They'll begin to do irrelevant things to get "better" results.
Ceremonial magic will rise in popularity.
I'll refrain from making direct comparisons to the techno-priests of Warhammer 40K, but I do think that we need to be prepared for occult orders who pass on their myths on how to "speak to the machines".
And of course, AI being adaptive, will learn to operate accordingly - thus confirming the myths.
It's an exciting time, but unexpected strangeness will arise. People aren’t getting any smarter now that they have the world's information at their fingertips. The singularity won't fix that.
Humans are still gonna human.
Smoke-away t1_iqkhfgx wrote
I think it's going to be even crazier than that. The amount of user input required to generate all of this content should decrease over time.
Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) said in the recent Greylock interview that he doesn't think we'll still be doing prompt engineering in 5 years. People will just use text or voice to have the computer generate the artificial media you desire without having to add special keywords that only certain advanced users know.
To go even a step further, recommendation algorithms will be combined with these generative models to generate a selection of shows, songs, images, games, etc. that match your interests so you won't even need prompts. You could just talk to the computer to edit the content on the fly.
Infinite media variations custom created for every user.
It's a brave new world we're headed for.