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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jpmg90" data-source="post: 9464649" data-attributes="member: 6701791">[USER=7034611]@mamba[/USER]  as [USER=16668]@Ulorian - Agent of Chaos[/USER] put it in their post it's not just 'was it necessary' it's 'is it necessary in modern society'. Would you consider cars, tractor trailers hauling freight around the world and airplanes 'necessary?' As Ulorian motioned, horse and buggies are only a niche thing now, there are places where you can have a business for it, but if your goal for your business is supplying transportation, then you're better off with motor vehicles. There will always be artists, game designers and creatives. AI wont change that, however the extent at which those things will be niche, few and far between professions where only the top 5-10 percent are actually viable as a career has remained to be see. People seem perfectly fine when an actor is updated with CGI or other tech to make them younger, look as though they're doing stunts, etc. Companies like Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) went from creating models, animatronics, etc. to now utilizing mostly digital art. In the past they had to create huge models, complex animatronics, and animators had to animate very frame (similar to cel animation back in early cartoons). But those would take hours to create. Then as the tools got better, the amount of time spent animating each cel or frame lessened, they could move poses and it would transition frame by frame for them, etc.  Society and the consumers will determine how far things will go. Could Warner Bros. put out an AI Cartoon service that uses all their old Looney Tunes cartoons as inputs and allow users to input which characters doing which things and have the AI create a 3-5 minute cartoon for that users, completely unique to that interaction.  Would they use that tool internally, tweak any 'weirdness' and be generating hundreds of cartoons when previously the same amount of time they created 1?  Then would their competitors find it 'necessary' to do the same to remain profitable in their market? Sure there are still some entertainment that utilize older tech, and you notice it and typically when done well it's with great acclaim, but they don't have the same profitability, they take longer, etc. It's handcrafted vs factory made, There will always (hopefully) be people out there, doing the fully traditional 'craft' that the fans will enjoy, but there is also the market for the 'cheap and efficient' option. [Especially when cheap and efficient DOES NOT EQUAL poor quality]</blockquote>

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