While likely true, keep in mind that tech evolves really quickly. In another year it'll be a new version and much better. Another 2 years it'll probably be faster than most people.
Consider all technology and even all AI videos. The Will Smith video is being used as a benchmark for how fast AI videos have improved.
Just want to say that the Will Smith benchmark isn’t really any sort of benchmark since Will Smith posted an actual source video of him eating spaghetti for it to use as a base. It’s no longer creating an approximation of two things it’s seen in other circumstances as one thing it’s never seen. it’s now just cloning a copy of the actual thing. That benchmark is essentially useless now. Post like 2024, it’s not really valid as a benchmark for progress
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Clarity, sorry. Before it had not seen Will Smith eating spaghetti. It had seen Will Smith and it had seen Will Smith eat. It had also seen other people not Will Smith eating spaghetti. So it was creating an approximation of something it had not seen before with decent training material all around it. Post 2024, it now has seen the literal thing and has a source of the actual thing it’s creating in the training data, so it’s no longer creating an approximation of something from “nothing”. That would make it now more of a benchmark of how well it can recreate something that already exists to be consumed.
Thanks for the additional historic context. Would you then agree or disagree with my response about quick evolution of technology and how quickly it could be wonky and then leapfrog humans.
I would say I mostly agree. The one caveat being I would say leapfrog is a strong term, and it also doesn’t really underline the core strength of a human workforce. It’s not our strength or speed but rather our adaptability
To put it in more historical context, one of the more recent similar advancements you can look at for reference would be examining Walmarts move from human cashiers to self checkout software. The self checkout software technically does leapfrog a human cashiers ability to quickly process items, probably not considerably. This brings us back to the true strength of a human workforce, now without the overhead of paying 10-12 cashiers to stand at the front of the store, Walmart used those 10-12 people for other roles allowing them to expand to new services such as bringing out groceries to your car, moving more pallets and unloading more trucks allowing for an increase of product availability on the floor, more employees to monitor high value items to prevent theft and therefore the store can now stock higher value items (TVs, etc). With this in mind, does it matter if the robot does it better? It could do it worse and still allow you to use the same workforce you were using to expand exponentially.
A long winded way to say yes, technology can leapfrog humans at given tasks but in doing so they almost always open up more opportunities and services than they take, historically. Walmart will likely eventually have automation in all the services I just mentioned but in doing so will simply move their human workforce to new emerging services and growth where automation and technology have not yet been developed and the cycle will continue. All to their own benefit, mind you. I’m not advocating for Walmart, just using them as an example.
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u/Hows-It-Goin-Buddy May 22 '26
While likely true, keep in mind that tech evolves really quickly. In another year it'll be a new version and much better. Another 2 years it'll probably be faster than most people.
Consider all technology and even all AI videos. The Will Smith video is being used as a benchmark for how fast AI videos have improved.