Simulated Intelligence

Goddamn, do I hate AI as it is presently defined. The best I could describe it as being is simulated intelligence. Perhaps, to your ear, it sounds like the same thing - but it isn't. The key distinction is that the present systems are simulating intelligence rather than any form of actual intelligence. Perhaps, sometimes, it gets close to a coherent response but that is purely accidental.

 

 

 

At best, the system can regurgitate the content it stole trained upon, but then, what value is AI providing? It's an insult to intelligence that these trillion dollar companies somehow think that this horse and pony show is anything but smoke and mirrors. No one who actually knows how these models works would say they're intelligent. Zero context and zero comprehension is made when it comes to forming their response. Let that sink in:

 

 

 

How the ''''AI''''  system actually works

All that the present AI system does is this: you have a question and then you have a 'golden' response. And then you keep training the model until the system spits out something closely resembling the golden response. For example, you have a question of what's 1 + 1? Then initially the system may spit out dog or Adolf Hitler and slowly it will eventually move towards a number. Maybe it will spit out 3 then 45 then 11 then, finally, it will mostly respond with 2.

Note that I used the word 'mostly' - that's because all that happens is a number of weighted gates are calculated so that you will mostly get 2 but sometimes you may get 'go kill yourself.' Because all those weights are just probabilities rather than guarantees. You cannot guarantee that 2 will be presented for all situations. It has no understanding of what 1 is or what adding 1 to another number is. All it has is its weighted trees and zero comprehension of what it's actually doing. If you want the results from addition to be guaranteed, just use a calculator.

 

 

I honestly don't know how all the tech magnates don't realise how fallible the current 'AI solution' is. When the general public is staunchly against AI and those in the know (ahem) know how weak the current solution is, the level of financial collapse caused by these glue-eating CEO's will be catastrophic. It's only the financial circle jerk between the AI leaders which keeps these transparent clothes from falling apart. This all amounts to another Ponzi scheme (cough, crypto, cough) where the rich get richer while the poor somehow still end up paying for it. 

 

No one cares

When it comes to established franchises, it is becoming increasingly clear that

 

Whether we're talking about Marvel, X-Men, Fant-four-stick, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Halo, Call of Duty and so on. No one cares. Perhaps each of these franchises has metaphorically been milked to a point of the well running dry - or that complacency has set in. The result is that their consumption numbers are a shadow of their highest peaks.

The new Mandrake and Grok is poised to possibly break even if they're lucky (NOTE: to break even, it's (budget + marketing) * 2 ... although it should be closer to 2.5 if we're being honest). Whereas low-budget upstarts like The Backrooms, Obsession, and Iron Lung have made back (at minimum) 10 times their money back. 

It's heartening to see brand new worlds being embraced by audiences while they show a palpable apathy towards established franchises. To add to this, these new films are being sourced from YouTube talents, much to the chagrin of the old guard of Hollywood. I, personally, welcome this. I have watched many movies over many decades and I have had zero desires to see anything from Hollywood in a very long time. Perhaps aspiring YouTube filmmakers are the catalyst for a new era of Hollywood, where demographics and focus groups give way to people who simply want to tell a compelling story.

I feel like it's obvious that the audience for modern filmmaking is dying. They're far too focused on agendas, representation, PG ratings and PC sensibilities that they've lost sight of what cinema is all about. We do not need to be preached to. We need to be told a story that doesn't play it safe; nor spoonfeed their plot points many times (AKA the Netflix formula)  just because we're living through the ADD generation. If the film respects the viewer, those who actually wish to be entertained will respond positively. 

And so they have. I would never have thought that YouTube would be the savior of (Western) Cinema but they do look like they're poised to do just that. Now, all we need is, perish the thought, for Steezy Grossman to make his Hollywood debut as the next Jackass. I kid, I kid; he is such a talentless hack. If he makes it in Hollywood, then he is the four horsemen and end times are nigh.