Welcome to AI Collision 💥,
In today’s collision between AI and our world:
- Two of the best things Ben Affleck has ever said
- What have YOU got to say?
- Infinite memory is going to be a game changer
If that’s enough to get the AI remembering, read on…
AI Collision 💥
The other night Armageddon the movie came on the TV. I quite enjoy that movie, so I stuck with it. My wife walked in not long after it started, and figured she might as well sit in on it too.
Eventually it got to that scene where they have chosen the miners they’re going to send up onto the asteroid to drill a hole, drop in a nuke and blow it to smithereens.
It was at this point I told my wife about the Ben Affleck commentary about the movie from the special edition DVD.
Remember those, DVDs. Where on the menu screen you had a bunch of viewing options, often you’d have a choice to watch the film with a director’s commentary or an actor’s commentary. They would explain how parts of the film came together, or a scene was shot.
Well, this commentary from Affleck is absolute genius.
If you’re familiar with the movie too, not only does what Affleck say make absolute sense, it’s also beautifully insightful and very direct.
The thing I like about Affleck is that he and Matt Damon, who are lifelong friends know the movie business inside out. And as hilarious as his commentary of Armageddon is, he’s spoke many times on the state of Hollywood and movie making and is always a deeply insightful speaker.
So, when just a couple of days later after watching Armageddon for the fifth time, I saw a video of Affleck speaking about AI and movie making, I thought this might actually be a good listen.
The reasoning here is phenomenal.
The reasoning here is phenomenal.
AI is a craftsman. AI is not an artist. Not yet. But what he’s also pointing out is that yes, there are aspects of movie making where AI will come in, kill jobs and cut the production costs of movies.
And it probably should do that, make the whole process more efficient and easier to do. But at the same time, there’s elements of human creativity that AI cannot do, maybe will never do because it is inherently not human.
AI is certainly a factor of creative destruction on not just Hollywood, but industry across the board. But not in a dystopian way. The process of creative destruction of industry trims the fat, streamlines, reduces costs, improves efficiencies and productivity, all the while creating more profitable outcomes, which leads to greater economic output and ultimately more jobs, just different ones.
And if it takes Ben Affleck to help people to see just how that works in a more celebrity infused industry, I’m all for it!
AI gone wild 🤪
Today’s “wild” section actually isn’t that wild.
What it is, is a request for feedback.
I’ve now been publishing AI Collision for over a year. That’s well over 100 articles on AI and how I believe it’s going to reshape our world. From some of the stocks that are changing the game to thought piece I reckon you should watch or listen, to some genuinely bizarre AI generated images it’s been a heck of a lot of fun to send you out my thoughts on all the things I’m looking at and researching in the world of AI.
But I want this publication to grow.
Much in the same way AI learns, grows, understands, gets better, more relevant, useful and fun I want this publication to do all those things too.
Which is why I’m going to the heart of what this is all about…you.
Without you, this publications doesn’t exist. If I’m writing to no one, then I may as well not be writing.
Therefore, I’m interested to know what you think. And I want unfiltered, brutal truths when you let me know. That could be good, bad or whatever you feel like saying.
The key thing here though is I would like to know if you like particular sections of our publication here, which ones and why? And if you don’t like parts of this publication, again, which ones and why…however there’s a condition to that.
If there’s something you don’t like, then I’m putting the power back in your hands to suggest what you think it should be instead.
There’s a very good chance, of all the people who read this publication, there will be some ripping ideas as to how we can make AI Collision better. Ideas that alone I could probably never have come up with.
So, I also want your IDEAS. They might be great, they might suck, that’s pretty much how I operate too – the key thing is with many ideas there’s usually something grand in there.
Let me know if you think there’s something I’m not doing that would be a great regular addition to have here at AI Collision.
To leave your feedback, just hit the button below…
Boomers & Busters 💰
AI and AI-related stocks moving and shaking up the markets this week. (All performance data below over the rolling week).
Boom 📈
- Cyngn (NASDAQ:CYN) up 28%
- Vicarious Surgical (NYSE:RBOT) up 11%
- Appen (ASX:APX) up 6%
Bust 📉
- Micron (NASDAQ:MU) down 14%
- Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) down 10%
- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) down 8%
From the hive mind 🧠
- A few weeks ago, leaders from all over the AI world convened in San Francisco for TEDAI 2024, a series of TED talks all about (as you’ve probably guessed)…AI. Now the videos aren’t all available yet, but you can get notified when they are, and I suggest you do here.
- Infinite memory. Imagine never forgetting anything. I’m not sure the human brain is capable of that. Thankfully it won’t have to, but AI can, and will, and it’s happening very soon.
- I had to laugh at this, mainly because the Australian one is very literally just a mash up of Chris and Liam Hemsworth 🤣
Artificial Polltelligence 🗳️
It’s new poll time! From an AI perspective there’s not a great deal to lean into in the UK right now. It seems like the government is fighting back some pretty brutal online rumours and opposition barbs to even think about real policy…
So, casting our eye to the US, we see more rumours and suggestions that during his term, returning President Trump is going to help put in place the right framework to accelerate the delivery of fully autonomous cars to US roads.
No doubt that’s a big push from Elon, and greatly helps the value of Tesla. How realistic do you think that is, and better question, are we now at the precipice of a renaissance in self-driving car stocks on the markets?
Weirdest AI image of the day
Exploiting the people’s money tree – r/weirddalle
ChatGPT’s random quote of the day
Startups don’t die because they run out of money; they die because they run out of momentum.
— Ben Horowitz, 2010
Thanks for reading, and don’t forget to leave comments and questions below,
Sam Volkering
Editor-in-Chief
AI Collision
