Category: AI

Most of the world has heard of Tilly Norwood. Here she is at the premier of her first film.

Except that Tilly is completely AI created. In a year you will see her in a new OTT series. Traditional Hollywood Agencies are vying to sign her. And of course there is a lot of angst in the Acting Community .. as you would expect. So what is going to happen to Bollywood ?

That depends a lot on stars themselves. The more expensive and exclusive they make themselves, the more the film makers will look for AI alternatives. BTW many of the ‘Influencers’ you see on your social media today are not human .. they are AI created ..

So what is the reality ? I am making my sequel to Masoom now .. but AI cannot capture the complexity of expressions of Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah. Not yet anyway

Yet when we see (say) a Marvel or a Bollywood action film the expressions are rather limited .. fear, aggression. Sexy dance, anger etc .. and the accent is much on costumes.. you can, for example, change the actor, but cannot change Batman or Superman’s costume .. right ?

So that’s AI first target .. action films .. and dance sequences and scale ! Yes .. it’s so easy to create scale with AI!

Forget what you just saw saw on AI ..Mahabharat .. that’s just first generation. It’s like the ‘dial up’ Internet days.. some of the stuff I am seeing now is ..pardon the expression..

Mind Blowing .. thoughts ?

Remember Tulip Fever ? When Tulip Bulbs became a form of currency. And a representation of Value .. Where a single rare Tulip bulb could buy you a grand house on Amsterdam’s Grand Canal .. considered at that time one of the most expensive Real Estate in Europe ..

Till the crash happened, and fortunes were lost ..

That was in 1637, and was the first valuation bubble to burst in recorded history ..

We are surrounded by conversations today of the impending great AI valuation bubble. Where ‘valuations’ are now measured in trillions of dollars.

Hang on .. AI is the most democratic technology to hit us. It will multiply human potential at a pace never imagined .. And I have argued that the real rise of AI will come from where it is most needed .. from the bottom of the socio economic pyramid ..

But valuations are another story. For that’s what valuations are .. a story .. a myth that is perpetuated by those who stand to benefit from it .. by those that benefited once in 1637 from the value of Tulips.

And if indeed we must believe in the ‘valuation’ of trillions of dollars .. then we have to accept that ‘money’ as a commodity is losing value .. and perhaps is no longer a valid measure of real ‘value’ ..

On a plane thinking of the future of AI .. Artificial Intelligence. What is AI? Machine learning ? If that’s all it is, then we are surrounded by AI. All of Google is one huge AI machine. It can deduce from Data that I put in what I might like .. what I might buy. It can deduce what I might do or want from what I tend do or want over time. Then mirror it against where I live, my age, my ethnic background and over time learn what I tend to do. What are my tendencies.

But that’s the difference. It can only predict my tendencies. But I pride myself in being individual. And if I am, then I can, if I chose to be, be completely random. Act completely randomly. But there is no computer that has the ability to predict randomness. Or be random

For all computers are built on linearity. Even billions of codes, trillions of them, cannot be random. Or predict randomness. Not unless I am so random so often that a computer will be able to predict my tendency to be random.