| It's already garbage. This will be better personalized garbage. As the saying goes, "one person's trash is another person's gold." Increased personalization of content at effectively infinite scales is a future I think most people really aren't wrapping their heads around. There will be both good and bad applications of it, but when it finally crosses the threshold, it's going to hit like a tsunami. The Internet built the infrastructure for 1:1 content, but there's simply never been the capacity for building out the creative. When you are watching a TV show that's being written and rendered live specifically for you, incorporating your social media data to develop relevant topics and story arcs, and pulse rate and eye tracking to gauge and adapt for interest/emotional connection -- traditional content simply isn't going to hold a candle. To me, that show is almost certainly going to be trash. But to you, it will be gold. The components for that future are arriving faster than I ever thought they would, and while it is still a ways off, it's increasingly an inevitable result. Your comment reminds me of people pointing out the uncanny valley years ago in claiming that computers would never create realistic looking humans. Just last week was research that not only can't people tell AI generated people apart from real ones, but they find the AI generated ones more trustworthy. There's a huge difference between the beginning of implementation of a technology advance and its half-life. |