Artificial Intelligence – Cameron Cooper's Science Fiction

The Future Outpacing Fiction: Can Sci-Fi Writers Keep Up?

In a recent conversation with Bill Gates, filmmaker James Cameron revealed a growing challenge for science fiction creators: staying ahead of real-world technological advancements. He noted that rapid innovation, particularly in artificial intelligence, is outpacing the speculative futures traditionally envisioned by writers. For creators of speculative fiction, this raises a profound question: How do you imagine a future that hasn’t already arrived?

Two Years On: The Rapid Rise of AI Image Generation

Leave a Comment / Artificial Intelligence, The Future / November 13, 2024

Two years ago, I wrote a post, “I Think AI Covers Have A Way To Go…”, that marvelled at the world’s first AI generated magazine cover, while at the same time suggesting that as “art,” it was lacking. Back then, faces and hands generated by AI were weird.

A year later, I wrote a follow-up post: “When I Said AI Art Wouldn’t Be On Book Covers Soon….,” that pointed out how badly I had underestimated the pace at which AI art generation would develop.

And here I am again, almost exactly a year later, shaking my head over the leaps and bound of AI image generation.

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