The AI discussion thread

[Kaido]

AI is now considered sentient

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First:

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke

Second, A.I. is Definitely Not Alive™:




Third, it took 45 iterations to get ChatGPT to create a custom-formatted calendar for me lol:

https://www.reddit.com/r/theXeffect/comments/1lgogpt/comment/n1y1xhz

 

[Kaido]

Major milestone...Higgsfield Soul ID: photorealistic video with character consistency, Humanity is doomed! lol

https://twitter.com/x/status/1942991063943418265

https://twitter.com/x/status/1942991399974227990

 

[Kaido]

One of my favorite movies growing up was Flight of the Navigator. Soooo much work had to be done or the visual effects back then! Great BTS video:

I started in 3D CGI in the 90's doing POV-Ray, which was text-based. Sort of like ChatGPT prompting, but FAR more manual lol:

POV-Ray - The Persistence of Vision Raytracer

Now I can do CGI and Video via prompting, including HD upscaling & effects improvements!



Ignore my many-fingered human friends lol, as I only spent time on recreating the spaceship as I imagined it could be:






This ws a little too clean & plastic-y:



I didn't have my good film-grain emulators handy, but here's a quick shot with an 80's film-stock aesthetic:

 

[Kaido]

2016's "Rogue One" brought Tarkin back to life with CGI. OG Star Wars shot:



Digital recreation:

How 'Rogue One' Recreated Grand Moff Tarkin

Industrial Light & Magic used "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" to push the boundaries of visual effects, especially in the area of digital humans. Design FX dives into the incredible techniques used to recreate one of the Star Wars universe's most terrifying figures, Grand Moff Tarkin.

www.wired.com

Fascinating backstory:

How Rogue One Brought Back Grand Moff Tarkin

Rogue One used visual effects to recreate Tarkin.

screenrant.com

Henry’s movements were then transferred onto a digital model of Peter Cushing’s Tarkin. In order to get his look exactly right, the special effects team closely watched Tarkin’s original scenes and used a life-cast of Cushing’s face made for his appearance in the movie Top Secret! in the 1980s. After the actor’s movements animated Tarkin’s face, the visual effects team had to make changes to small facial movements. Even with Guy Henry’s best impression, he could not always move his lips or skin the way Peter Cushing would have, so those details were edited on the digital model. The lighting was also changed to match A New Hope to create the same effect on Cushing’s face. This model was superimposed over Guy Henry’s face to create the incredible facsimile of Tarkin.

Ebert is not a fan:

Hollywood Necropolis: The Dangers of Digital Performers | Features | Roger Ebert

A commentary on the unsettling trend of using CGI versions of deceased performers in Hollywood blockbusters, from Rogue One to The Flash, and the industry's push to digitize people.

www.rogerebert.com

A Youtuber attempted a Deepfake improvement back in 2020:

An improvement 7 months later:

https://youtu.be/gg1LPc6WUdM

Final movie output: (1997 to 2016, a 39-year gap)



Recreated with vintage filters on my end using A.I.:



Modernized using A.I. upscaling on my end, 9 years post-Rogue One. Obviously a little TOO detailed:



However, we can soften the image up with film stock emulation: (click to animate)



And finally build the animation. Behold, one hour's worth of AI-driven DCC work 48 years after the original performance: (click to animate)

https://imgur.com/PEmCSXA

 

[igor_kavinski]

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Unfortunately, he lost his imposing and threatening look in that.

 

[Kaido]

Unfortunately, he lost his imposing and threatening look in that.

tbh I have yet to see it done well. The Tarkin, Leia, and Luke recreations all looked weird. F&F is next:

https://screenrant.com/fast-and-furious-11-paul-walker-brian-return-brothers-cgi-explained/

 

[Kaido]

ChatGPT's "Study Together" educational feature:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AIGuild/comments/1luaknv/chatgpts_new_study_together_mode_turns_the_bot

ChatGPT is testing a mysterious new feature called 'study together' | TechCrunch

The mode is apparently the chatbot's way of becoming a better educational tool. Rather than providing answers to prompts, some say it asks more questions and requires the human to answer.

techcrunch.com

ChatGPT is getting a new 'Study Together' mode: Everything we know so far

OpenAI has been testing a new ChatGPT Study Together mode in recent weeks, with some Plus users seeing the new model in the app.

bgr.com

 

[RnR_au]

Perhaps a new religion is being born as we speak...

 

[Kaido]

https://www.facebook.com/khizra.ashraf.52/posts/pfbid0jKf3yFvkSk7N58nJLCQEqvNAAiQvkJ4cFSyyejecdARnz7Z6pfRGpt7kw8q7SVVkl

BREAKING: GPT-5 is releasing for FREE this summer & Sam Altman just admitted that it’s smarter than him.
This might be the biggest AI leap we've ever seen.
Think about that for a second. The guy who's been at the forefront of AI development for years just said his own creation has surpassed him intellectually.
WOW!
Here's what Altman confirmed:
☑ GPT-5 launching between July-September 2025
☑ It won't launch unless it clears strict internal benchmarks
☑ They're killing the model picker - GPT-5 does everything automatically
☑ No more choosing between GPT-4, 4o, O1, or O3 - one system figures out what you need
What makes GPT-5 so powerful:
- One unified AI system: No more confusion about which model to use. GPT-5 automatically adapts to whatever task you throw at it.
- Chain-of-thought reasoning by default: Before, you had to prompt it to "think step by step." Now it reasons like a human automatically.
- Long-term memory: It remembers your style, goals, and preferences across sessions. Like having an assistant who actually learns how you work.
- Fully multimodal: Talk, upload files, images, audio- it understands everything in real-time during one conversation.
- 1-2 million token context: You can feed it entire books, company wikis, chat histories. Nothing gets lost.
- Autonomous tool use: It doesn't wait for you to ask. It anticipates what you need and does it proactively.
Here's what this means for your business:
If you're an entrepreneur: One AI equals a full-stack founder. Strategy, copy, marketing, content, funnels - all handled by one system that understands your business goals.
If you're a developer: Enterprise-grade code in minutes. Code that would take teams weeks, debugged and optimized automatically.
If you're a creator: You write the vision. GPT-5 handles voiceovers, scripts, thumbnails, visuals. The entire content pipeline becomes automated.
The competition isn't even close:
Claude 3.5: Great researcher, but passive. No tools or agents.
Gemini 1.5: Strong at vision, but lacks unified reasoning.
Grok: Good for social media, especially real-time data from X, but not deep problem-solving.
GPT-5 is positioning as all-in-one: reasoning + tools + memory + multimodal + agents.
If they deliver, it's game over for everyone else.
But here's the crazy part:
Altman said "We're reaching the end of this mountain." He's suggesting GPT-5 might be the last model before AGI.
This isn't just an assistant. It's infrastructure for intelligence.
Agents that work while you sleep. Automate research, write code, build funnels, run strategy.
How to prepare right now:
→ Learn prompting now - it'll 10X your output even before GPT-5 drops
→ Design systems GPT-5 can run - workflows, campaigns, automations
→ Don't build AI tools - build businesses powered by AI
→ Focus on creativity, vision, and orchestration - AI handles execution
The reality check:
When the creator of the technology admits it's smarter than him, you know we've crossed a line.
The question isn't whether GPT-5 will change everything.
The question is: How fast will you adapt?
Because while you're thinking about it, someone else is already building their GPT-5 strategy.

 

[Kaido]

Save a cat with exercise!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1944500246215786887

 

[Kaido]

OpenAI image editing suite:

https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/generate_images_with_high_input_fidelity

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945538534884135132

 

[Kaido]

Actor-driven character generation:

* Runway’s Act Two mapped for facial performance
* Midjourney for the face graphics
* Elevenlabs for the voice transformation

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945285590012059738

 

[Kaido]

Music on-demand! Use your own voice:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945884363805061537

 

[Kaido]

Actor-driven character generation:

* Runway’s Act Two mapped for facial performance
* Midjourney for the face graphics
* Elevenlabs for the voice transformation

lol this is so cool, it's like Ready Player One!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945237399564341344

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945373320448500216

 

[Gizmo j]

 

[Chaotic42]

ChatGPT has been horrible for chemistry stuff, but the GF wanted to extract willow bark to turn it into aspirin. I knew ChatGPT's method would have produced some... unfortunate things, so I avoided a dangerous step, but otherwise kept going and ended up with a bunch of slop, just wanting to see what happened.

Gemini seems a lot better at that stuff out of the box and was horrified when I told it what ChatGPT wanted me to do.

Be careful when using these LLMs to do anything potentially dangerous.

 

[Kaido]

ChatGPT has been horrible for chemistry stuff, but the GF wanted to extract willow bark to turn it into aspirin. I knew ChatGPT's method would have produced some... unfortunate things, so I avoided a dangerous step, but otherwise kept going and ended up with a bunch of slop, just wanting to see what happened.

Gemini seems a lot better at that stuff out of the box and was horrified when I told it what ChatGPT wanted me to do.

Be careful when using these LLMs to do anything potentially dangerous.

But what about Personal AI Forecasting, aka Nerd Horoscopes?

New AI model accurately predicts human life events and time of death

Danish scientists build an AI that predicts life events and time of death using real data from millions of people.

www.thebrighterside.news

 

[Kaido]

 

[Kaido]

Clone your voice & personality:

1. Create a super-smart AI version of you
2. Ew

https://twitter.com/x/status/1946123014258495557

 

[KMFJD]

the deluge in ai videos on youtube is starting to become annoying, block one channel and two more pop up, boring repetitive narrative is the first clue, shit content is the 2nd

Warren Terra (@warrenterra.bsky.social)

From the replies (https://bsky.app/profile/dasbradley.bsky.social/post/3ltxgjin72k2f) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bsky.app

 

[jpiniero]

Spoiler

Professor Oak's been busy

 

[Kaido]

the deluge in ai videos on youtube is starting to become annoying, block one channel and two more pop up, boring repetitive narrative is the first clue, shit content is the 2nd

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Warren Terra (@warrenterra.bsky.social)

From the replies (https://bsky.app/profile/dasbradley.bsky.social/post/3ltxgjin72k2f) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bsky.app

Scammers are already using identity theft for false advertising:

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7524763185006578974

 

[KMFJD]

the straight up copying and then ai'ing the contents/narrative is something i have seen a lot

 

[Kaido]

the straight up copying and then ai'ing the contents/narrative is something i have seen a lot

18 million views & who knows HOW many sales from that one! Character generation starts at $9:

Higgsfield

The ultimate AI-powered camera control for creators by creators

higgsfield.ai

 

[Kaido]

Long but good read:

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

As we reported earlier this month, many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality. The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and...

www.yahoo.com

"This is what the first person to get hooked on a slot machine felt like," she added.

This is a little scary because I use ChatGPT like hourly lol:

* I use it in place of Google for most searches. Like, I just needed to see when Aldi's closed & just asked ChatGPT instead of having to hunt for it..
* I calculate most of my macros for meal-prepping with it.
* I upload product manual PDF files to ask questions without having to manually search

Plus:

* Shopping for the best price & getting coupons & cheaper alternatives
* I use it extensively with my 2D & 3D art with my CNC machine, laser cutter/engraver, 3D printer, and Cricut machines, as well as graphic design (Ideogram), 2D art (Midjourney), photo editing (Freepik & Magnific), and video (Kling). Saves me RIDICULOUS amounts of time & effort!
* Creating custom documents, like my specially-formatted multi-habit tracking calendar below

It's like having a smartphone...I would NEVER wanna go back to a flip phone lol!