From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   Quite a few YouTube channels have popped up lately, with a bunch of AI-   
   generated animations of a few minutes each, on SF-related themes:   
   steampunk, retrofuturism, alien planets, fantastical costumes.   
      
   Of course there tend to be glitches, ranging from the disconcerting to the   
   hilarious. Flying cars which inexplicably still have wheels; several   
   1950s-style retrofuturistic videos with robots styled just like 1950s   
   kitchen appliances -- I thought these were wonderful, much better than the   
   actual robots we saw in 1950s movies.   
      
   People eating things in weird ways, walking in the wrong direction, an arm   
   belonging to one character turning into an arm belonging to another   
   character, and even more peculiar things.   
      
   One scene showed a bunch of people in swimwear relaxing around a centre   
   area which looked like a cross between a swimming pool and a tennis court.   
   It had water, it had a net. And it had somebody walking on that water ...   
      
   I wonder where we go from here? Will future advances fix the glitches?   
   Then there is the high energy cost of running the computations to produce   
   these images -- that will have to translate into actual money being   
   charged to the users at some point. Will there be a crash in the   
   popularity of AI once the free ride is over?   
      
   Whichever way you look at it, I think we are in a transitional era which   
   will not last long.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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