probably the best description of EA that I've read so far.

And yet... I watched two films just a couple days ago using the MUBI App on a Samsung Smart TV (airbnb, on holidays): Dream Scenario and No Other Choice. Both had a surreal image quality, as if an AI filter had completely destroyed the director's original intention. I know for sure that at least Dream Scenario shouldn't look like that, because I had already watched it. I don't know about the other but I suspect this wasn't the original look. It's probably not MUBI's fault, but the best restoration is just powerless when the movie is watched on what most people end up watching movies this day.

Are you sure it wasn’t just the TV? Unless someone put it into filmmaker mode or similar, it almost certainly would have had motion interpolation enabled, as well as a blue white-point, oversaturated colours, and probably some artificial sharpening and de-noising.

Before that, a more important question is: why assume that buying or having "more stuff" leads to a better life?

Human life requires some consumables. Even with less stuff, you will always need some stuff.

That 'some' is actually very little compared to rich countries' GDP per capita. You could argue that a lot is wasted acquiring useless stuff.

We need very few non perishables aside from the roof on your head.

Even a roof on your head is perishable over time.

Also true but that's not something I can easily show with economics.

Do we assume that?

I love it how the rampocalypse is pushing people to squash all the performance they can. I hope that this also leads to rethinking model architecture so that they can do the same with less.

This looks like a great idea, thanks for sharing it!

All videos are so full of stereotypes and clichés, often borderline (or just plainly) racist. But of course, that's not the main worry for people making these things, right...

Does the original video fare any better? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0

So much money spent to avoid the easiest answer: less cars (more public transport, more bicycle lanes, etc.)

So while we're trying to make computers do what humans do, we play pretend being computers.

Of course the solution to overusing AI is... to use more AI. Love it.

> This is generally driven by people’s desire for a new device, including for the functionalities provided by new models.

So people are to blame, not the companies shoveling ads, offering promotions to buy new phones, and in general creating the huge demand that they later, "are forced to satisfy".