Future

Our AI-Assisted Future We are entering a world where we can create any kind of content we can dream of, just by asking an AI (Artificial Intelligence) to make it for us. This isn’t some distant future either - more like within the next 12 months. AI-generated text is basically here already, and it’s practically indistinguishable from human writing. The main limitation is it can only generate small amounts of text at a time, but that’s just a matter of scaling it up. Image generation, too, is already shockingly good. Take a look at Google’s Imagen or OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 that were both announced recently. It has a similar limitation in that the images are limited to low resolution, but again that won’t be the case for long. ...

I have been having the most troubling dreams lately. I have my doubts as to whether I should share them with you here, as merely recalling their details causes me to question my sanity. But I must tell someone, and you are the only one who will listen. I dream that I am in Singapore, though it is not the Singapore of today. The geometry is wrong in a way that I can see with extreme vividness in my dreams yet cannot describe in adequate terms when awake. The buildings are too tall, too thin, and they tower over the streets like grasping fingers. ...