Action figures, a comic book, and altered standards of communication

A few month's back I reposed an older article I had written nearly a decade ago detailing predictions about the future of AI and its effect on jobs. Since then I've had a few related thoughts that fall closer to the human aspect of the work economy.

Currently, ideal interactions with AI assistants and agents occur in a positive but invariably request-response style exchange. For example, I've been having fun with generating realistic images of Salvius toy designs. The exchange is something along the lines of the following:

Me: "I'm looking to generate realistic images of toy designs based on the attached image. Can you create a version with classic bubble packaging and include the name Salvius on it?"

AI: "I would be happy to create that design for you. Here are a few examples..."

Me: "Those are great, could you also create a few variations that show the robot depicted as a comic book illustration?"

AI: "I'd be happy to. Here are a few examples of Salvius depicted as a comic book illustration..."

So what's so future-shaping about this style of conversation? My prediction is that they'll charge the way people communicate by altering expectations around standards of communication. Professional conversations (especially ones that occur in text format) will begin to mirror this dialog format as the expectation of a "good response" is pushed further towards the model set by AI. As is, this has already been the norm for many decades in customer-service occupations where the typically asinine "customer is always right" mentality is pushed by the corporation such that underpaid employees are made to circumvent standard practice and common sense to prevent obtuse customers from causing a scene.

On the other hand, as text based communication becomes more robotic, perhaps there will be an upside in which in-person interactions become more human. One could anticipate more candid conversations with fellow humans as the norm becomes to communicate in a way that deliberately contracts anything "bot-like" (often bots are just telling you what they predict you want to hear).

Anyway, that's all I've got for now. With any luck, I'll be able to look back another decade from now and reflect on how well or poorly these predictions held up. In the meantime, I'll be looking to see if I can find any services that can convert an image into a boxed action figure because I'm slightly obsessed with a few of the concepts that I was able to generate.

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