RE: It's Time. I'm Back.

Hey Rick! Thanks so much for the warm welcome back, really appreciate it man :-)

The way AI has developed over the past few years, for the longest time it seemed to me like it was heading for a plateau — where most people would basically just use generative AI as a chatbot in the ChatGPT web interface, and additionally for generating AI-slop images. And to be fair, that image side of things has developed quite impressively: from hands with seven fingers and women with three breasts, to something that's actually correct, all the way to genuinely unbelievable realistic video and voice imitation like in this video: WOW, just... WOW — absolutely insane.

But the past few weeks — and I mean literally weeks — I'm seeing developments especially on the Agentic AI front, and now we're looking through a very technical lens here (also from a data science background), that make me think the world is absolutely not ready for what's coming. And probably never will be, to be quite honest.

I'm genuinely concerned about things that are going to happen for which no real solutions exist. Things that will cause serious, real-world harm to people. Think for example about hyperrealistic facial simulation of real people, with fabricated bodies attached underneath that are indistinguishable from real footage — created purely to humiliate, bully, and destroy people. I think we're going to see some absolutely devastating consequences from this. People who end up deeply, severely traumatized... or worse. And beyond that, there are all sorts of security implications that practically nobody is thinking about, and that I won't even begin to type out here in a comment...

In short: "interesting times" ahead. And I don't mean that in a comfortable way ;-)

PS: Check your Discord more often! I want to schedule a call / online meeting with you, about this and other stuff.

PS2: Yup, I will continue to post often from here on! Will you too? ;-)