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World's first beauty pageant for AI women is announced: 'Miss AI' contest will see computer-generated ladies face off in tests of beauty, technology and social-media clout - with a $20,000 prize at stake
- The Fanvue Miss AI pageant will be the first beauty pageant just for AIs
- The contestants will be judged on beauty, technology, and social media clout
Beauty, poise, and classical pageantry might not be what first springs to mind when you think of AI.
But contestants in the world's first AI beauty pageant will need all of these in spades if they are to claim their share of a $20,000 (Ā£16,000) prize pool.
The Fanvue Miss AI pageant will see AI-generated ladies go head-to-head in front of a panel of judges, including two AI influencers.
These synthetic competitors will be judged on beauty, social media clout and their creator's use of AI tools.
Will Monanage, Fanvue Co-Founder, says he hopes that these events will 'become the Oscars of the AI creator economy.'
What's that... .17 cal to the forehead?
This might be the most significant 2024 development of all, closing the list with a bullet. A frightfully under-reported and understated story appeared yesterday in MIT Technology Review, headlined, āOpenAI and Google are launching supercharged AI assistants. Hereās how you can try them out.ā We have now supercharged right up to, if not the singularity, at least a singularity, or in other words, a kind of escape velocity point of no return.
What do you notice about OpenAIās unquestionably successful dev team?
When does the AI assistant become the boss, and the boss become the assistant? I would emphatically argue you need to know about this tech story, except that soon you wonāt be able to avoid it. Hereās how one AI news streamer ā used to reporting on the breakneck pace of AI tech developments ā began his extraordinary YouTube yesterday (linked below):
What could terrify a seasoned AI streamer? Hereās his video, a vignette of demo clips from OpenAIās development team showing off its seductive new AI chatbot that talks to people in real time. Possibly the most terrifying one was the clip of the two AIs talking to each other.
YOUTUBE: Insane OpenAI News: GPT-4o and your own AI partner (28:47).
Itās not just talking. Watch the whole thing. Seriously.
More human than human. The mystery of the AI blitzkrieg could fuel a thousand conspiracy theories. How did this Turing-test demolishing technology of human-like chatbots spring fully-assembled from nowhere, from multiple allegedly independent development teams, who admit they donāt completely understand how it works, and which rapidly reached this singular point in a handful of months?
Ultimately, it doesnāt matter. Wherever it came from, UFOs, demons, neural networks, or good old fashioned knowhow and elbow grease, itās here now, and itās about to change everything.
MIT reported that the new model, not yet available to the public, can hold a conversation with you in real time, with a question-answer response delay of only about 320 milliseconds. That makes it indistinguishable from a natural human conversation. And it can look at things.
You can ask the model to describe and interpret anything in your smartphone cameraās view. It can help with coding, translate foreign text, and provide Babelfish-like real time translation between two people. It can summarize large amounts of information, and it can generate images, fonts, and 3D renderings from spoken descriptions.
We could see this coming, true, but now itās here. The commercial applications are incomprehensibly infinite. Teaching, customer service and support, drive-through order takers, games, lawyers, doctors, you name it, virtually any service industry, especially the sin industries (e.g., paid phone erotica), are about to be transformed overnight.
But itās the potential personal implications that are the most disturbing.
Folks ā especially younger people ā will soon be tempted to form relationships with their AI. We humans crave relationship and in creating them can easily bridge any gaps. Think about the depth of peopleās relationships with their wire terriers, parakeets, iguanas, boa constrictors, or even tarantulas. āMy dog is better than most humans.ā
But these alluring AI relationships will be much more rewarding, or at least more affirming, even than pets. And they could conceivably be even more rewarding than real human relationships. Real humans are messy, argumentative, distracted, jealous, selfish, and self-interested. Simulated humans only care about you.
Donāt get me wrong. Iām no Luddite. I got my first computer ā an Apple II ā when I was twelve. This imitation human technology undoubtedly offers tremendous untapped potential for good. But we are about to run head-first into a social and economic disruption more transformative than the last centuryās auto and air technologies. The vast scale of its implications is literally unimaginable.
So get ready. Itās a Brave New World. Once the AI genie, now just a dot on a screen, wafts out of the iPhone, it will only take a few weeks to obtain a real face. And from there, itāll just be a short trip to embodiment in a lifelike robot shell.
And these days, as World War III continues rattling across the worldās plains, itās getting more difficult to argue the AI could possibly do a worse job than we are doing. Many folks will welcome our robot overlords. Donāt underestimate this. They accepted masks and they believe in magical gender changing, for crying out loud. If they digested a wise Latina as Supreme Court Justice, theyāll believe in transcendent AI.
At least the AI wonāt sniff kidsā hair. It probably wonāt claim New Guineans ate its relatives, either.
What do you think? Is this good news or bad news for we real humans? And maybe thatās not even the right question. How should we prepare to respond to living with simulation?
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