TheSecretAgenda

TheSecretAgenda t1_j0icrww wrote

Microsoft has always been a "Me Too" company being caught flatfooted on just about every technological advancement.

They stole everything from the original DOS operating system, to Excel, Word and Internet Explorer.

The only thing they have ever had going for them is the massive profits from basically getting a piece of the profit from 90 percent of the desktop computers sold in the world. I would give the edge to Alphabet not that Microsoft won't try to steal their innovations and reverse engineer them like they always do.

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TheSecretAgenda t1_j0gaxzg wrote

I think those are exactly the people in the most danger. If you are doing album covers or book covers, packaging art, logos and such an AI can crank out 1000 variants in minutes. Most working artists aren't painting portraits or doing gallery shows. They are doing the dull normal art that AIs are now great at.

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TheSecretAgenda t1_j0gaiij wrote

I sort of see it as people standing on a train track. The train is barreling towards them. They won't get off the train track. They can yell and scream about the train but, nothing is going to stop it. (Short of a solar flare and a massive EMP.) Yet they rend their cloths and nash their teeth. They will be no more effective than the luddites or blacksmiths at the turn of the 19th century into the 20th. They will simply have to adapt.

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TheSecretAgenda t1_j0bu5bb wrote

If the AI could form a profile of every person on Earth and predict what that person is likely to do. Plus, predictive weather patterns, crop yields, scientific discoveries and account for a black swan event or two you could probably develop a pretty good predicative model.

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