The impact of AI-based content generation
A dive into text, image, and voice AI-based generation and how it will dramatically change our future.
In 2022, AI-based content generation is all over the tech news. Text content with GPT-3, image with DALL-E 2, Midjourney, or StableDiffusion. These are just the most famous; many more exist.
Let’s look at some examples and search for the impacts!
Text Generation
So, how can text generation be used? A few examples:
Generating realistic dialogue for digital assistants,
Automated content generation for news websites,
Generating personalized marketing content such as emails and social media posts.
Writing summaries of text documents.
Did that sound about right? I hope so; these four bullet points were generated by GPT-3. I got you!
But GPT-3 is right: soon, we will use - and read! - content generated by these technologies daily. Email, news, articles, scientific papers, books…
Let’s think further.
Education
Education will need to adapt. As of now, any student can generate an essay with these tools and fool their teacher. How do we ensure students are not using AI to do their homework? Or maybe a better question: will education choose to evolve with AI and adjust the curriculums and ways of teaching? If so, are there unintended consequences for the students and the skills they would need in the future?
Prompt: Write a short poem about a purple bird in the mountains.
GPT-3:
I saw a purple bird in the mountains
He was so beautiful and free
I wish I could be like him
And soar through the sky
But alas, I am not a bird
And I can only watch him fly
Wait - GPT-3 knows he’s not a bird?
Software development
Software development will change too. Indeed: it’s not only text that AI can generate but also software programs. There are already, as of today, tools that auto-generate code functions. In the future, I will be able to write text - or even talk - and look at the result application instead of coding. «Create an email text field below the title that allows the user to register to our mailing list.» Boom! The email form gets added to the website I’ll be coding. This is a trivial example, but you get the gist. Oh, actually, let’s try it!
Prompt: Write an email submission form in HTML and Javascript.
GPT3:
<form id="email-form" action="">
<label>Email:</label>
<input type="email" id="email-input" />
<input type="submit" id="email-submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<script>
document.getElementById('email-form').addEventListener('submit', function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var email = document.getElementById('email-input').value;
if (email) {
// do something with the email
} });
</script>
And many more…
This post is intended to be a short form so that I won’t go into more examples, but since you’re insisting:
If your job involves writing of some sort, this part will dramatically change in the next few years. Think about it, and start preparing…
Digital assistants, from voice to text, will exponentially improve in the next few years. Automated transcript and summary of all meetings, uncanny support bots…
It will be virtually impossible to distinguish fake text from the authentic text in any area. The most problematic are science and news… Maybe blockchain-based signatures will save us on this one?
The list goes on…
Image and video generation
This section will be a bit shorter as many examples have flourished on the web recently, so you might have already encountered it. I have been using Midjourney to create the cover images for this blog!
Let’s try DALL-E it with the prompt:
A blog reader finally understands the huge impact that AI-based image generation will have on his daily life
The first one is pretty good!
And Midjourney with the same prompt…
Very different! More artistic in a way.
Artists, photographers, tattoo artists, illustrators, VFX Artists… It might not completely replace the process, but it will be a great assistant for them.
Fashion creators, too, see this fantastic example by Paul Trillo.
What about… car design?
A concept for an electric muscle car in the style of Nissan
I’d like the third one, please!
Oh, and an artist who uses AI-generated art has already won a contest and the other artists are freaking out…
The impact!
The examples above are amazing, but I think there is something even more impactful that will come up in the next years - or maybe months?
The part that is costly in AI is the model training. It’s hard to get exact prices, but we have one example below, he is speaking about StableDiffusion.
That’s still pretty expensive. But AI models are getting better and better, performances are increasing… This price will go down. A lot. Until…
It’s accessible to everyone.
How great/disruptive/weird/dangerous/[insert your feeling here] would it be, to have AI-generated content calibrated for one person?
If I’m an artist, how helpful would it be to have an image-generation tool that is calibrated only on my art?
Or a text-generation tool that is calibrated for me, that was trained on my emails, on my instant messages, on my voice calls, meetings, etc.? Would this AI be able to pre-fill most of my day-to-day communication, so I would just have to adjust and validate?
And when I’m not part of this world any more, would that model still be available online? And it will be able to speak…
With this technology, did we made the first step towards into immortality?
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