[skyyler]

>Really makes me wonder if any of this incredibly computationally expensive research is worth it

I'm wondering the same thing. 256 H100s were hot for two days straight to be able to make short clips of cartoons that almost don't look like shit?

It just isn't compelling to me.

[burgrkng]

Compared to the resources costs for humans to prop up the industry, a handful of DCs that can do this and still improve is cheap.

Work phones, laptops, personal stuff. We duplicate a lot of resource use for one person to have a career.

There will still be pencil and paper. There’s still creative things to do. Do we even get that these days? Where’s our generations LOTR or Star Wars? Yep just prequels and sequels of same old.

Are we that creative copy-pasting and git pull deps someone else maintains? IT is librarian work these days. Little in the day to day is novel creativity.

Your argument is not a compelling one. Feels like hand wavy nod to a human soul, while ignoring we all complain about soul crushing jobs capturing so much of our agency, sucking fun out of life since it’s just the same todos different day… not that creative and we tacitly notice and complain but keep doing.

It’s a really lame circular routine and lived experience being around my peers these days; oh I hate my job but this new thing is an abomination and affront to my chosen job. I’m gonna be someone someday! Don’t take it away! Unicorn! Disrupt!

[skyyler]

>Feels like hand wavy nod to a human soul

I have no idea what you're talking about. I've tried to understand where you're coming from with this and the only logical conclusion I can make is that you spend a lot of time engaging in debate about creativity and art as it relates to new AI technology, and you are simply re-igniting previous debates instead of engaging with me.

>It’s a really lame circular routine and lived experience being around my peers these days; oh I hate my job but this new thing is an abomination and affront to my chosen job.

It sounds like you're arguing with your peers, and not me, because I don't hate my job and I don't think AI is going to replace it any time soon.

>Are we that creative copy-pasting and git pull deps someone else maintains? IT is librarian work these days. Little in the day to day is novel creativity.

This isn't what I do at my day job, and if that's what you do... I think I have a good idea of why you interact with the internet like this.

[altcognito]

So, costs roughly 15k?

[skyyler]

$15k for some clips of tom and jerry that almost look passable. What a deal.