Not sure I consider this futurology,
Yeah, its borderline. But I posted it as the the excuse/reasoning centers around AI. Microsoft's plan for 'Recall' are a huge invasion of privacy and stem from use of AI too. It's the topic of AI & privacy that merits discussion.
Although I wouldn't want the final decision to rest with AI, it makes a lot of sense that this is used for preparatory and research work leading to decisions.
I gave you a shout out in the main sidebar as an extra thank you.
Lots of people in the world of SEO, marketing, and copywriting are excited about the possibility of creating vast quantities of AI-generated text. They have a problem. Human waking hours are finite, and many of us may be near our upper limit for absorbing new content.
OP examines the other side of this. How new AI's advances allow us to examine text. It seems obvious to me this will have more profound effects than the ability to generate text. Consider one aspect of this.
AI should allow us to analyze the logic in politicians' speeches in real-time. There are over a hundred logical fallacies, and they are a standard part of political debate. So much so, if you took all the logical fallacies out of political debate - what would you have left? Soon people may have the ability to easily find out.
a lot more to writing than a prompt
This particular tech seems a lot more than merely providing a prompt. The users also write the story and dialogue. The AI just produces the visuals.
Palantir's panel at a recent military conference where they joked and patted themselves on the back about the work their AI tools are doing in Gaza was like a scene with human ghouls in the darkest of horror movies.
Estimates vary as to how many of the 30,000-40,000 dead in Gaza are military combatants, but they seem to average about 20%. This seems like a terrible record of failure for an AI tool that touts its precision.
Why does the US government want to reward and endorse this tech? Why aren't people more alarmed? By any measure, surely Palantir's demonstrated track record is one of failure. The Israel-Hammas war is the first time the world has seen AI used in significant warfare. It's a grim indication for the future.
I think Youtube shows what a world is like when everyone can make video content. Most is bad, but some is good, and a small amount is very good. Like any human endeavor.
A particularly aggressive form of colorectal cancer runs in my family. My grandmother, an aunt, and other relatives have all died of it in their fifties.
This is still at the clinical trial stage, but the approach could work for many other types of cancer too. Fingers crossed it's as successful as possible, and available as a treatment very soon.
It's still early days for this tech. Right now its maximum output is 800W, which is not a lot. OP mentions this delivering 3kWh on a typical day, about 10% of a typical US household's consumption.
But it's the direction of travel that is interesting here. This will get better, and cheaper. Then systems like it will be able to deliver 25% of daily consumption, then half. All with affordable systems you can install and set up yourself.
Many people have nightmares about dystopian and apocalyptic futures. I would feel safer in a world where electricity production was decentralized and could survive major disasters.
Thanks Everett. We'll be in touch soon.
The US has imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs, and the EU is considering increasing its tariffs. I'm sympathetic to the worker/industry protection argument, but many people will look at decent EVs being sold in China for $15,000 & feel they are being cheated.
This technology is still very much at the proof of concept stage. What's fascinating is that they did not expect the neuron tissue to be healed in the way it was, and don't even understand how the stem cell robots did so.
That is a problem though. How do you develop the potential for something, when you don't really know what it may be able to do, or how it may be able to do it?