High skill/high quality photography being rejected as AI?

[LCPete]

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...s-birds-citizen-science-aoe?CMP=share_btn_url


Interesting Guardian article actually mentions the sort of thing that Steven shows in his owl images, AI image enhancing actually changing the bird to resemble another species

 

[Barney]

Not just the obsession, the big tech companies are spending trillions for billions in returns.
I predict a burst

When I have ever bought going concerns I averaged 5-6 times earnings, In an exceptional case I once paid ten times earnings. The big tech are trading at 100's of times earnings while the rest of the market is in the real world is at 6-7 times earnings. even the most optimistic people know that is unsustainable, considering that they generate so much of the market value and are so over prescribed, a 50% drop in totality is not impossible and probably a conservative estimate.

 

[gman]

There's definitely a cooling off going on with regard to AI and it's spread from the Asian markets, recently hit Europe and has now reached NY. I think the driving force is perhaps concern with an immediate ROI, especially considering the massive investment involved with AI and the associated energy concerns, which is something that needs to catch up. Investors want quantifiable profits, not hype and I would argue that there is certainly a lot of hype surrounding AI.

There's also the SPACEX IPO to consider, because of the way it is setup and the rapid inclusion into indexes, it essentially forced the big institutions to fund their allocations and the high value tech funds were the prime choice to do so.

At the moment I'm not seeing it as panic, but more a correction and investors redistributing and balancing out their portfolios. A lot of the tech funds may suddenly look like they are a bad investment because of the recent volatility, but when you look at their longer term growth compared to many other sectors, many will have still performed admirably.

 

[gman]

Speaking of AI itself, my Google phone uses AI to enhance photos that have over x30 zoom. When I see the results they can often be so good I've been convinced that it must be using stock photography to do so. But just the other day I was zooming in on some boats anchored and just as I took the photo it lost focus. The AI started to do its thing and the result was also out of focus.

This got me thinking that maybe it isn't using stock photography. Or more precisely, it may be referencing to it, but not actually directly using it, otherwise surely the OOF image would have been enhanced to one that was in focus?

 

[myotis]

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...s-birds-citizen-science-aoe?CMP=share_btn_url


Interesting Guardian article actually mentions the sort of thing that Steven shows in his owl images, AI image enhancing actually changing the bird to resemble another species

Yes, as I said in my response to Steven's post, you would not have identified that owl as a short-eared owl from the AI-enhanced image.

 

[Downhill Specialist]

Not just the obsession, the big tech companies are spending trillions for billions in returns.
I predict a burst

I am not wise enough to predict but I can certainly hope and I do have my feelings that it's going to burst based on the reasons you (and others) say. I am not a fan. in fact I am an avid avoider of it. The people shoving it down our throats telling us to accept it or fall by the wayside are the people who are making the most money from it. I for one can't wait for the bubble to burst and the billionaires to be humbled. One can only hope.

 

[gman]

I am not wise enough to predict but I can certainly hope and I do have my feelings that it's going to burst based on the reasons you (and others) say. I am not a fan. in fact I am an avid avoider of it. The people shoving it down our throats telling us to accept it or fall by the wayside are the people who are making the most money from it. I for one can't wait for the bubble to burst and the billionaires to be humbled. One can only hope.

Unfortunately, a massive crash would hurt far more than the billionaires. As I've mentioned elsewhere in reference to SpaceX, there are European and UK pension funds, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (Canada's largest single-profesison pension plan), the Washington University Endowment (which generates sizeable payouts supporting scholarships, research etc) and far more like this who will all have heavy tech investment.

If hurting the billionaires also means hurting these vitally important pension plans and investments, then I'd rather see a steady correction than a burst.