A week ago on September 24th, a YouTube creator “leo” posted what he described as a “cute little animated music video by Opus 5.5 with some help from suno.” As he did not provide details of what prompts he used, it is hard to tell how original Opus 5.5 was.
I think it is very likely that the author is an economist because the average person is not familiar with the many economics ideas that appear in the video. The result is impressive.
One comment says it well. “This isn’t AI slop anymore. If Opus 5.5 can already animate so good, in a year many animators will be out of the job.” The AI’s lyrics will certainly put a few song writers out of business too.
AI agents are becoming scary good. The video makes numerous references to various people and concepts. I doubt that I know anyone who would be familiar with all of them. I got all the references because I have a background in science, technology and economics. But in a limited sense, Opus 5.5 is smarter than I am.
The video asks you to ponder if AI is a normal technology. Then it very cleverly argues that it certainly is not. Continue reading “AI is Scary Smart”
