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The image above is from a show called ‘Nothing Forever’. The show is AI-generated version of Seinfeld.

It has been streaming on Twitch 24/7 since mid-December. It tells the “story” – if you can call it that – of four characters, Larry, Fred, Yvonne and Kakler, who look like what would happen if Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer were sucked into an 8-bit video game from 1990. You can watch season 1 here.

While Seinfeld ended in 1998, it’s been the subject of a zillion mashups since then, including the great Twitter feed called Modern Seinfeld, a TikTok actor doing his own spin on it and even some Hip Hop Tv fusions. But at the top of the list we have to put Nothing Forever, because we’ll look back on this as the first of something which changes entertainment forever.

AI’s will win an EMMY

This is actually some cutting edge stuff, because all of it was creating by AI and Machine Learning. The script, the voices, the computer imagery, the movement, the laugh track and even the music is very Seinfeld-esque. It runs forever…. it doesn’t end, it just keeps on going. It is running right now here, and it has 200K followers.

At the moment the show is super glitchy. The dialogue is mostly weird, the characters bump into each other, and the images are super lo-fi. But it occasionally has some genuinely funny moments. It is the just the seed of a much bigger movement. Let me explain.

Just like video games, this will improve and eventually evolve into HD video of people which are indistinguishable to the real Seinfeld actors. You won’t be able to tell the difference. The jokes will get funnier. In short, AI will be able to generate an infinite future of Seinfeld, by learning from actual Seinfeld episodes, and combining information from the modern world to make it relevant to today. As the AI improve exponentially, so will the output of shows like this.

Re-Runs Version 2.0

Within a decade you’ll be able to watch AI generated versions of whichever TV show you used to love. Friends, Happy Days, Mash, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Big Bang Theory…. you name it. You may remember 4 years ago write about you becoming a movie star. This is part of the same movement.

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This is the Future of Entertainment – At first it will be re-runs which are just as good as the original, and eventually entirely new shows will be spawned via AI with no real actors or script writers. They’ll look sound and feel as thought they were created in the traditional way, and we won’t care. Studios will embrace it because it will be cheaper, and viewers as always, just want to be entertained. We’ll develop emotional connections with actors, in Tv shows that don’t actually exist.

AI is changing everything.

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Keep Thinking,

Steve.

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Remember this iPhone advertisement? – There’s an App for that? – Of course you do. I’m sure you had a number of App ideas that you never got around to making. (we all did)

Then, you saw Apps that were similar. They validated your idea, and made you kick yourself that you didn’t act quicker. Side note: There are very few things in my career that I wish I waited longer to do!

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A moment in time

Untold billions have been made on the back of the smartphone. Some built reputation, some made money, some got sold to Apple and some, even turned into giant global businesses in their own right. Despite starting inside another corporations eco system, as a simple App.

What is happening right now with Artificial Intelligence is a once in a decade tech shift. One in which new fortunes will be made. We saw this with the World Wide Web, when Social Media emerged, and with the Smartphone. It is now that time for democratised AI. Society is about to change. This chart really displays the moment in time which has just arrived.

Each pink block represents the size of opportunity of each technology epoch. Not only are they bigger, they change the world faster, as represented by the increasing vertical leaps in each block. This is exponential technology in action.

At my keynote speeches recently, I’ve been asked what the biggest opportunities emanating out of AI will be….

This is my answer:

It won’t be what you think. The real opportunity with AI, ChatGPT and friends, isn’t doing what you’ve been doing ‘more efficiently’. It’s not about AI absorbing tasks. It will be an unexpected use of the tools. They’ll be an unlock which becomes obvious in hindsight. If we look back at the Smartphone, the biggest unlock was actually the GPS. The ability to locate things and people invented massive businesses. It made Uber, Airbnb and Dating apps possible. Just think about how weird it would’ve sounded if someone said 20 years ago;

‘I think satellites will have a big impact on relationships and marriages. They’ll disrupt bars and alcohol as a way for people to meet.’

It would sound insane, yet here we are. Likewise, it’s early for AI and creative people will uncover new ways to use the technology which we and the creators of the technology don’t foresee. That is the opportunity. And the only way to find the opportunity is to experiment with the tools and let your imagination run wild. Because leveraging technology is never about understanding how it works, and always about to get it to work for you.

It’s an imagination game…. we’ve been handed a platform, it’s time to experiment.

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Keep Thinking,

Steve.

No AI’s have been used in the creation of this post. Of course, you can’t really be sure of that. You just have to take my word for it.

If it seems like I’m obsessed with AI at the moment, trust your instincts. It’s a worthy topic because the universe just changed. Last week I gave you a small taste of the tools available. This week we need to consider the implications of the tools. We can start with this image of random people below. And they all have one thing in common. See if you can guess what that is?

None of these people actually exist. They are computer generated photos of imagined people. Well, at least that’s what www.thispersondoesnotexist.com will have me believe. For all I know they took a phone to a BBQ and took some happy snaps.

And that’s one of the key issues we’ll face in the next few years. Knowing if something is real or AI generated. Just think of all the synthetic versions of reality we can already create. Voices, videos, pictures, in fact anything we can create a digital version of, we can now create a fake version of. And it has no noticeable difference. Within a decade we’ll be able to buy soft robots of ourselves. Which look and sound exactly like us. In fact, this has already happened. Hiroshi Ishiguro is a roboticist who makes life like robots, including one of himself.

We may need an entirely new definition of what is real.

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So what should real mean? The original. There is only one. The first. Organic. Not made by machine of software. There is no substitute. Found in nature. Not an imitation. Not made in a factory. All natural ingredients… And who gets to decide?

Or maybe, it’s natural that AI has arrived, because it was created by biological beings. It might just be just a fork in the inevitable evolutionary path we must follow. I’m not exactly sure.

But here is what I know for sure. The only way we’ll be able to tell if something is real of ‘fake’ – is if we are forced to outline it legally. It’s time for law makers to get busy, fast. And while I’m very positive about what emergent AI’s can do to help humanity, I also think humanity deserves to know when they are interacting with each other, or something other.

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Keep Thinking,

Steve.

Technology doesn’t advance in straight lines. It’s choppy with flat periods of stasis, and massive vertical progress leaps. We’ve just had one such leap and it’s not too late to get ahead and benefit economically.

In the digital era we’ve had moments that changed everything. A few come to mind:

• The PC & Laptop
• The Web Browser
• Social Media
• The Smart Phone

It is that moment for AI.

The tools are now highly functional and available to everyone. Think back through your career and companies you’ve worked for. Did you or they, either got on board early? Or fall behind?

Don’t fall behind this time. When shifts like this occur, fortunes are both made and lost (you know the ones), and careers can be totally ruined or reinvented. We get to choose.

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One of the great things about the internet, is that you can only ever be 15 minutes behind. And when the next era arrives – like now with AI – you can get ahead despite what you didn’t do in the past.

So, to help you get ahead here is a list of AI tools you can use. Play around with them, get familiar and I’m sure your imagination will jump to possibility.

• AI Creation Engine Chap GPT – Get it to create almost anything for you.
• AI Image Generation – Dall-E-2, Mid Journey, Stable Diffussion
• AI voice changer in real time – Celebrity voices, you name it – Voice.ai
• Get an AI to write for you, in your style – Jasper AI
• Create a video of a talking avatar via text – Synthesia AI (talking Avatar)
• AI Lawyer – World’s first Robot Lawyer – Do not pay.
• Automate Social Media – Repurpose – one post, many paltforms
• Write Essays – Jenny AI
• Transcribe meetings with notes & summaries – Fire Flies
• AI Voice generator from text – even your voice – Murf
• Write sales emails that convert – MailMentor
• AI Assistant – Andi AI
• Turn an idea into a Youtube Video – In Video

The crazy thing is, this is just a small sample of what’s out there. I promise you there is a tool for you and your gig. The right tool will remove hours from your week and maybe put you on a new path.

The rest is up to you.

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Keep thinking,

Steve.

We’ve entered the next phase of technology and it is this:

Turning Bits into Atoms

What? Let me explain. Bits describe digital things, and software, is made up of many bits. Atoms make up physical things which we can touch and feel.

For the first 25 years of the internet we did this: We took the physical, and made it digital. We took a newspaper and put it online. We took a CD and created MP3s. We took BlockBuster and invented Netflix. We literally turned Atoms, into Bits.

Now we start to go in the opposite direction as well. We will take information and create physical things. Artificial Intelligence is becoming so powerful, we can now build a physical world from mere information. We can brew meat, we can build a mind, and even humanoid robots.

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With my new Startup – Macro3D I will be turning bits into atoms. (I practice what I preach). I will be printing houses. The image above is our first robot we’ve built – who we call ‘Arti‘. Arti will soon be printing low cost houses, and using materials (designed with AI) which are far better for the environment. Our goal is to assist with the housing crisis by providing financially and environmentally sustainable living. We are currently looking for investors for anyone who want to be help invent a better future. I firmly believe we we build a multi billion dollar company. Here’s what we can already do:

While much of the focus has been about AI (like ChatGPT) spitting out information, I’m more excited about AI helping us invent new energy systems, secure our food bowl and build our structures.

The future has already arrived, for those brave enough to embrace it.

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Keep Thinking,

Steve.