AI is changing everything.
Repeat this 1,000 times and write it 100 times to make sure it is understood.
Whatever we are dealing with today, will likely be vastly different in a decade. Actually, with the pace of things, we are looking at a radically different future by the end of this decade.
One of the areas I often discussion is entertainment. In that realm, we are going to see personalization as the primary standard going forward.
This is not the only arena we see it happening.
In this article we will discuss the idea of personalized jewelry and how that market will change completely.
Any guesses what is driving it?
Personalization: Create Your Own Jewelry
Arcade is a new AI driven product creation site. This takes the ideas of individuals and turns them into physical world items.
It is a concept that was around in the past yet is moving to another level due to AI.
This actually puts the design capabilities in the hands of the users.
The generative AI platform, which launched its beta in September, allows customers — referred to as “Dreamers” — to input their ideas into a generator that then produces a variety of jewelry design options. They can also upload images.
Once a “Dream” is selected, it’s assigned to one of Arcade’s artisans, who brings the digital concepts to life as tangible pieces of jewelry, including bracelets, charms, earrings, necklaces, rings, and more. There are a number of materials to choose from, including gold, brass, silver, and a variety of gemstones, including diamonds, garnet, ruby, and more.
The author of the linked article went through the process. It was reported the entire process, from start to product delivery was 2 weeks.
Are we looking at the future?
At this point, and the software is in beta, there were some issues. According to the article, it didn't do well with multi-item necklaces. Adding more than one charm was problematic.
This is to be expected for something that is news. However, this is also showing us where things are going.
AI = Personalization
Here we see an example of what is possible.
Some opined that we will never see movies generated by AI on an individual basis. I disagree. Leaving that aside, here we see the ability for one to design jewelry, using a prompt (or uploading an image) and receiving the item a couple weeks later.
Why would anyone shop off "the rack" again?
Naturally, the wealthy always had access to unique items. Because of the cost of design and production, we saw the affordable items being mass produced. This means you would enter a store and dozens of the same item were available.
That is not the future. We can see from this single example how jewelry is already changing. While this is not widespread at the moment, it might be the norm by 2030.
The future is going to be driven by AI and that means personalization. In this article, I used images from the article and Arcade's Website. However, these days, most of my articles have images produced by an AI image generator.
That image never existed before and will probably never be duplicated again. It was for single use, embedded into the particular article.
The cost of production was zero, hence it is affordable to make one for each article.
Obviously, physical items are a bit different due to the cost. However, if the software improves to the point where anyone can design jewelry using some prompting, what does this mean for the industry?
As always, things are changing rapidly.
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This is something I'd like to speak to, also. It's a very good example of how this tech distributes power. I can't draw for shit, but I wanted an original design for my avatar. The few times I tried to work on one with artist friends it never worked out and everyone's time was wasted. I can't imagine what the cost might have been if I had been getting billed. Fast forward to Midjourney. I played around with it long enough to burn up my free time, paid $10 for a one month subscription, and got what I wanted free and clear.
I hear a lot of podcasters complaining about it because of how it will impact jobs in the creativity fields, but they aren't considering how much opportunity it opens up for average people in daily life. I'm trying to learn to play saxophone, but I'm not a musician. When I was a kid that meant I had weeks, months, maybe years of practice ahead of me before I could play something. Now, thanks to tech, there are all kinds of "fluff part" tutorials out there that make it so I can spend a few minutes practicing a key part, record it with my phone, loop it, add a quick drum track and simple bassline (which are also automated in dozens of apps) and I can give the illusion I know how to play. It isn't high art, but it's a door into another realm that just wasn't as easy to peek into a decade ago, but people who play bass and drums bitch because they had to learn, so it isn't fair that now I can just have bass and drums without years of study. It's a tired position across the board. If you enjoy playing the drums go play the drums. If you want me to pay you to play them go fuck yourself. Drums are free, now, man.
You have struck upon what 99.9% of the people miss about technology. We hear discussions about inflation and how much it is jumping. Yet then we hear about jobs being lost, which is deflationary.
What is not discussed is the fact that standards of living go up.
To your point, I generated a movie poster in about 15 seconds. This was about 6 months ago so it is now "dated" from a technology standpoint. Nevertheless, I have no skill in this area yet was able to generate an image that rivaled (although not perfect) the movie studio poster from the ere (it was a 1980s film).
How much did the studio spend on the design? And I did it in 15 seconds.
So I agree with you. For all the complaining, what we have is abundance. There was a time when photography was very difficult. Today, we are nearing 3 trillions photos taken annually. With generative AI, how many more photos will be created each year?
People overlook the abundance that is before them.
This deserves discussion. How we are defining standard of living as a society is where the conflict lies, I think. I see people living on the street with cell phones. Yes, they have access to all the wealth of human knowledge, but when the robots took their jobs making those phones they lost the ability to afford a place to live. I think most people find this trade reasonably unacceptable. How we distribute the wealth generated from automation needs to be addressed, but I don't really know what the solution is. I'd like to see it discussed more, though. It feels like it's getting close to a point where the majority won't be able to keep up, which means crime goes up as people try to survive. That gets more cops and people in prison. I don't want to live the life of a factory farm animal in my final years. I suspect no one else does either.
Web 3.0 is the answer.
The major debate is corporations or government. Most of the discussion falls along these lines. Private ownership of the means of production versus public. It is basically the old capitalism versus communism.
To me, there is a third option, communal ownership that comes from having stake in the network which generates the means of production.
It is why I am always going on about Web 3.0 data, AI, and AI agents tied to blockchain. It is crucial.
Yes, I completely agree, but I'm more concerned with how to get there. Everything is already in private hands. The food we eat, the water we drink, everything we use in daily life, and, likely someday, the air we breath. How do we pry all that away and institute a policy of everyone getting there own piece of it to grow?
History shows that it has to be taken.
People with power tend not to willingly give it up. There are many who benefit from the existing systems and keeping them the way they are. So, unless people grow a backbone, i.e starting to do things differently, we will simply keep empowering those who have the power.
As I said, even something like posting on here as opposed to X or Meta is a big step. It feeds more data to the blockchain, something that is open to everyone. Data is the basic component to the digital world (if we exclude energy). The tentacles of the digital world are only expanding, bridging into the real world.
Who has the control? Unless people decide, Big Tech is only going to gain in strength. They are already in entertainment, news/information, and food.
I didn't notice the cost or materials used mentioned, but I would presume using that software will allow the creators the right to duplicate that item for anyone, eventually leading to what amounts to an army of free product designers, for the mass production of the cheaper variations of those designs. It's another way our data will be mined while we get little to nothing for it, just like mainstream social media.
So you put data on servers that another company pays for, using software they developed, and it is your data?
No. Not at all. That was the point. It will be yet another situation like that, where once you agree to the terms of service you give up all rights to any profit generated from your design, just like we give up rights to our data when we post on FB, X, etc. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
"AI is changing everything" i totally agree, the speed at which ai is improving & advancing is really amazing where it became capable of doing things that just 10 years ago we couldn't even imagine it's possible, & the process is still going on & i'm sure n 5 years it would b capable of doing things that we can't imagine at the moment, let alone how things will b n 10 years, i would say ai, robots, automation & even cyborgs is the future, there will b entire ai fashion brands, ai designed furniture, ai designed houses, parks & even entire cities, i can imagine ai & robots doing most jobs n the future, most of us will have much free time we should start thinking from now what do we want to do n that free time ?, nice & cool article, well done & have a good day
If the future is on this path of IA, it is a good thing for those of us who develop publications or are dedicated to similar aspects at all times.
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