What is dead and/or going to die, and what is not dead yet
Update: I have now published a report on this topic, available here: https://www.ostrowick.co.za/documents/public/endofworld.pdf Introduction Having now experimented with LLMs and other things like GANs extensively I've come to the following conclusions: The following are going to be replaced / mostly AI-done within a few years: - Reading books - by most people (what's the point? You can just upload the PDF and summarise it). Most people can barely bring themselves to read books before AI, nevermind now that you can just get a summary. - Writing books unaided - especially classic books - without adulteration by AI content - Music generation - what's the point now that we have the likes of Udio or Riffusion? - Stock images and photography - as soon as things like Midjourney produce reasonable hands. At the moment I've already given up on stock photos. - Art prints - anything you want you can describe and print, even things that look like paintings. - Video creation/ m...