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Yes, but that's never what happens in reality. Trades, crafts and professions have been coming and going for millenia in response to society's response to inventions and changing mindsets. You'll never see a lamplighter doing his rounds in the streets of London today, but there's still a horde...

Way off topic now, but this aspect of the American Dream - wanting to be governed rules laid down by a few privileged white dudes nearly 200 years ago - is something we Old Worlders look at and scratch our heads. :contract: Here in France, our constitution was updated yesterday, for the 26th...

Meanwhile, a bit of light relief: (pretend it's about costume design, to keep it movie-related :director: )

Specifically on the topic of creativity, Sabine Hossenfelder this week highlights some recent studies showing how "AI" is becomes less creative as it "learns" from its own output, output which has either been homogenised to the point of banality, or spewed out the same kind of error to the...

This is sort of what I meant when I remarked previously that Sora possibly has the potential to be a useful storyboarding tool, and could well become capable of producing a "complete" movie ... in very rough form. However, from what I've seen of ChatGPT and other machine-learning/pseudoAI...

It sounds like you're asking three different questions: - (1) is it okay to make a film about a highly emotive topic? Answer: yes, of course; it's done all the time. Whether it's a topic that will interest other people when it comes to making the movie, and whether it's a topic that'll attract...

Greetings, Lydia! :hi:

Ah, OK. That makes a lot more sense. Making you think you're seeing pixels where there aren't any is a reasonable use of an algorithm - but it's still only mimicking what our brains do with UHD images coming in through our own eyes. I haven't really paid an awful lot of attention to VR...

:huh: Is that your own assertion, or are you quoting from someone somewhere? Either way, there's a giant incoherence in the proposition: visual "resolution" is measured in pixels, so if you eliminate them, you inevitably reduce the image resolution. Given that our eyes function at a resolution...

You're a great man for getting excited about announcements. :D I've got to that stage in life where I've learnt that announcements are the easiest part of the delivery process. So just about keeping up with the robots of the 1950s, then.

Hire someone to care for your aged parent; put them in a home; share the care with siblings/children/neighbours ... there are three options straight off. Over on this side of the Atlantic, the option of euthanasia is also available in certain countries and certain circumstances. The average...

If you live in a world where you have only those two options, then you've chosen a dystopian lifestyle. Fortunately, even in 2035, there will be all kinds of other alternatives, most of which will offer a good intergenerational relationship between humans so that they can all enjoy good mental...

Three times as long as what? I live in a house that's 300 years old and is not particularly exceptional for the area. I have friends and acquaintances that live in houses that are 1000 years old, so they've already lasted three time as long as mine. :D What you're referring to is not the...

🤔 What are these "commercials" of which you speak? While you're at it, what is this TV thing and should I be worried it'll disrupt my visual entertainment? 😝

If "all music" is free for you, does that mean you're excluding all non-free music from your listening experience? And does "Nobody" mean everyone - because I for one still buy CDs, almost always from a box on the stage where the artists have just been performing, and usually I'm just one...

Blockbuster was a bog-standard tertiary commerce, about as far away from "the movie industry" as it was possible to get while still having something (anything) to do with movies. They provided a means for customers to watch movies of their own choice in the comfort of their own home, a...

:huh: Conquered? Has it? I'm not seeing a single example of a complex multisubject text prompt being turned into a video clip, so I'll hold off on my congratulations for a little longer.

Probably longer than they say but sooner than we might expect. Even then, I would predict that whatever progress is made will be less impactful than forecast. Just like MS WordArt didn't turn everyone into a graphic designer, Photoshop and iPhone cameras haven't turned everyone into master...

I didn't say that the new stuff is exactly like the old stuff; on the contrary, I said (or at least implied) that its developers churn out a load of shiny new "content" that looks impressive until you put it to the real-world test; and then you find that, in fact, the developers opted out of...

I thought adding sound to the moving pictures was supposed to have been the beginning of the end? :scared: This isn't a beginning or an end; it's just a step forward on an uncertain path. What is certain, though, is that this "Artificial Intelligence" - or at least the development team behind...