The Mind-Blowing Future Of Generative AI
The things we’re seeing with AI today are downright primitive compared to what we’ll see in the future.
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The things we’re seeing with AI today are downright primitive compared to what we’ll see in the future.
Think about what generative AI models are capable of today. They can create text that’s useful or amusing, and images that can be stunning but which require a good deal of trial and error to get right.
In the future, both of those things will get better and more seamless, but we’ll also see generative AI models focused on more sophisticated types of media, like videos.
Videos are the obvious next step after text and static images; we’ve already seen crude versions this.
But imagine the day when we can take this vibrant image created with Stable Diffusion and animate it.
Then, with a more advanced version of a language model like GPT, create dialogue that’s based on details that you provide.
But you wouldn’t need multiple steps and user interfaces to do this. This could all potentially be done using a single user interface and a single prompt.
In other words, you could create a Pixar-like movie with just one line of text.
Video is the next evolution of generative AI and it will probably rise in parallel to generative music, where a prompt like “create a 20 minute soundtrack to an action movie in the style of Taylor Swift” could result in multiple new songs.
But the evolution doesn’t stop there. What’s beyond video? Real-time 3D.
This is a medium that we mostly see in video games today, but in the future, most content is going to be real-time 3D content.
3D is much more immersive than video because it’s interactive. Anyone who has played video games knows this. You could spend days, weeks or months immersed in an ever-evolving virtual world.
One day, you’ll be able to create those immersive, interactive 3D environments using AI in the same way you can create text or images with AI today.
How cool would it be to create a virtual world that’s completely tailored to your preferences with just a few lines of text?
But the evolution doesn’t stop there. Beyond real-time 3D is virtual reality—which is essentially a more advanced form of 3D that’s even more immersive and experienced through specialized hardware.
If you’ve experienced VR, you know the potential that this technology has, but one reason that it hasn’t taken off quite yet is a lack of content. That won’t be an issue with AI.
The day will come when we can create highly immersive virtual reality experiences with simple AI tools.
That would essentially take us to towards the concept of the metaverse (but I won’t get into that in this post).
I know this stuff sounds like science fiction, but to me, it’s the natural progression of generative AI. And according to AI experts, getting from where we are today to some of the things I’ve talked about won’t be long.
Here’s something else to think about. We’re going to see AI-generated content that’s created based on human input, but we’re probably also going to see AI-generated content that’s created based on AI recommendation algorithms.
If a platform like TikTok, YouTube or Instagram knows you like cat videos, then it could create an AI-generated cat video for you—with no human input whatsoever.
That would be wild.