> However, a downside of classifier-free guided diffusion models is that they are computationally expensive at inference time since they require evaluating two diffusion models, a class-conditional model and an unconditional model, hundreds of times

Doesn't seem to match what I see with Stable Diffusion. One of the most popular UIs has 20 steps as the default, and that works great in my opinion.

And people have harnessed the unconditional call for an "undesired content" feature where you actually do give it a prompt, and then classifier-free guidance takes the picture away from including that prompt. That's a fairly popular feature, so losing it for faster gens would be a tradeoff, not an unqualified win.

> I’m really interested in real-time voice changing capabilities.

https://koe.ai/ might be the best thing for that in the near future, though I don't know what the author's current plans are for a non-demo release.

I don't agree with OP's specific story as such. I think by the time you have the level of AI capability that they're describing, the gameboard has been flipped and pretty much all future predictions are off.

But there are nearer-term levels of AI capability that could revolutionize programming while still being far from doing all the work of putting together entire programs and software services. Even just a significantly smarter Copilot could cause some serious frothiness in the job market. And we might see one soon, if a self-play approach like programming puzzles works out and lets us get around the current problem of paucity of training data for code models.

I've never had anyone kill my buzz as little as by pointing out that no, it's not just AI, actually the rest of science is making exponential progress as well. If anything, it seems to be making my buzz even more alive.

(well, arxiv paper count anyway; there are different views on how that relates to the amount of progress in general)

> But no one seemed to figure out, not dying brings on a ton of problems.

I never go out into the wilderness these days, it's too loud there with all the lone voices shouting about how fixing aging would cause problems.

I mean, I can sort of understand why all of these people believe they are the only one who came up with these arguments. These people all go to /r/longevity and don't see them, because they get downvoted into the sediment. Because it's the same arguments repeated over and over so many times that nobody wants to engage with them.