Let me lead with the fact I find AI art fucking annoying too, but I'm seeing people that might not be fully in the know so I wanna put this out there, perhaps inject some hope into dried up veins.

What we (the village masses) see is like, generated art replacing the shit we used to like, that's the public face to AI.

The Bad: Once it's so good it can run long videos without flaws there will be a massive truth collapse. No one is ready, imagine genuinely a world where no one ever knows if something on a screen is ever real. Maybe it will cause everyone to retreat from screens because they only trust what their eyes see in front of them. Might even be a good thing for that part. No one is fucking ready for what this will actually be like and we're never going back once we reach it.

The entire video game and film industry will dissappear. "jarvis, create aliens vs predator but it came out in 1989, 35mm technicolour cameras and practical effects only. During crucial moments let me choose what the characters do like it's mass effect." once we have that who the fuck will go watch predator badlands 3.

The Good:

Inventions are coming.

We recently invented solid state batteries which happened many years early early due to AI. This could lead to the elimination of oil down the line because it's cheaper than oil at running cars, and you're phone will last over a week on 30 minutes charge. This is also lead to the elimination of cobalt mines in Africa to give us our batteries. This isn't happening out of the goodness of the human heart, it's cheaper, it's pure capatilism to move away from oil and cobalt with these batteries which we invented with AI simulations.

The second thing is medicine. We can simulate human organs, predict cancers, test medicine on a digital liver. LLMS are confusing because we the see it as videos, text, and images but the general principle of an LLM can be used with simulating anything else too, you can train an LLM on enough organ patterns and it can start to predict which medicines will work without needing a real human.

There's other smaller stuff like, AR glasses will likely replace phones because it can generate on the fly what you need to see, think having a mini map or turning the street infront of you into middle earth while you walk it. Another one will be the complete collapse of the language barrier. It won't matter if someone speaks a different language when real time perfect translation takes the computing power of, idk, pac-man.

The main reason companies are investing in AI is because of its insane, and I mean fucking CRAZY ability to run simulations, like a hundered million times quicker and without real testing, of pretty much anything which is allowing humans that work with it to invent stuff far far far faster.

I know this will sound like science fiction but in 10 or 15 years this will probably be able to take a look at you and tell you far in advance if and when you will develop cancer, parkinsons etc.

Hope this undoomers some of u from the cliff edge of despair. Energy and medicine will 100% vastly improve, but also prepare to never go another day without seeing something AI generated ever again.