drones
Drones can disregard geographical limitations, traversing mountains, rivers, and oceans, flying hundreds of meters in the air.
They can follow people to take photos and videos, overlook rooftops and mountains, deliver goods, spray pesticides, perform geographic reconnaissance, and even launch weapons.
In short, they can do many things we couldn’t do before.
For example, the DJI Neo 2 drone can automatically avoid obstacles and film you from various angles.
The advantage is that you don’t need to hire a photographer; the drone becomes your personal photographer, able to shoot from any angle at your command.
You also don’t need a tripod camera or a futuristic autonomous robot, as these are all costly, one is immobile, and the other is not recommended for public places.
You can’t have a photographer assistant stand in a river to take your picture, even if your pose requires it, but your drone can hover over the water to shoot.
You can’t have a photographer climb a tree or rooftop to shoot, because it’s unsafe and difficult, but you can let the drone fly up there.
You can film dynamic scenes of people riding bicycles, walking, and even your own home. From the rooftop, around your home, you can film the water, get close-up shots of bird nests, see vast wheat fields from the sky, enjoy mountain views without climbing, see abandoned buildings, and access places inaccessible to humans.
You can transport water and supplies from the foot of a mountain to the top in just a few minutes (while walking is not only tiring but can take hours or even longer).
Drones can deliver emergency supplies at sea, provide thermal imaging for mountain rescues, traverse thorny terrain, and cross steep slopes, shortening rescue time.
Everyone dreams of flying; nowadays, there are airplanes and drones.
Currently, whether it’s a mobile phone, action camera, mini camera, AI glasses, or panoramic camera, they all only offer a land-based perspective.
Only a drone offers a flying perspective, irreplaceable.
From a shooting perspective, it’s like a 360° camera assistant, regardless of distance or space, emotionless, mini and compact, won’t bother others, and requires only a small battery.
If you’re involved in video creation, consider drone shooting—whether it’s filming yourself or capturing landscapes, these are all excellent options.
AI Magic
If programming is technology, and drawing is technology, then AI is magic.
Whether it’s old photo restoration, style transfer in painting, sketching and coloring, speech-to-text conversion, text-to-speech, voice cloning, or video face swapping, these were all difficult or impossible to achieve before.
Some techniques required years of learning and painstaking frame-by-frame processing. But with AI, a month’s work can be reduced to a few seconds, consistently producing the desired results.
In other words, machines are ten or a hundred times more efficient than humans. Similarly, AI is ten or a hundred times more efficient than traditional programming techniques. If you are a beginner… So, using AI from the outset is equivalent to a thousandfold increase in efficiency, and the results are quite impressive.
For example, AI drawing, AI short video creation, AI speech generation, AI translation, etc.
AI can also serve as a personal electronic assistant, helping you organize information, solve problems, and assist in thinking, providing support in various aspects such as office work, medicine, law, and daily life.
This is why the government restricts the trade of certain graphics cards, and why their prices have been rising. Therefore, the computing power of graphics cards is currently the most important asset.
AI video creation, AI office work, and programming are just the tip of the iceberg.
Take YouTube subtitles, for example. Before AI Wshiper, generating subtitles cost me $1 to translate 10 minutes of video, while I didn’t earn $1 a day on YouTube.
And this is just for subtitles. If the video needs to be re-edited or there are other errors, the subtitles still require payment again, but with AI… With the release of wshiper, I can process tasks locally for free, anytime, anywhere, offline, without review or worrying about duplicate payments. The quality is better and faster than some commercial products, which is one of the advantages of AI.
Also, YouTube cover design, YouTube title design, video effects, and video dubbing—previously all involved paid content—now have open-source AI projects that can handle these.
Especially for tasks like chatgpt, document organization, and data processing, it’s incredibly fast, whereas manual processing is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive.
People used to say, “Master one skill, and you’ll be set for life, never lacking a job.”
That’s no longer the case; now it’s AI. In this era, mastering AI is precisely the beginning of change.
AI is like a magician who only incurs electricity and computing power; it’s your personal intelligent assistant, capable of completing tasks a thousandfold more efficiently. It can accomplish things that would take years of study or are simply impossible for you to do. It allows you to acquire services that would otherwise be necessary (like subtitle translation) at a very low cost. It can automate most aspects of life, work, business, and even warfare. Previously, learning programming required significant financial investment, and teachers weren’t always good, often due to human laziness or lack of instruction. Now, learning and handling tasks can be done by AI. It has no bias (though sometimes it can be foolish, it’s extremely reliable most of the time).
Tips
Gold and real estate belong to the financial category and are outside the scope of ordinary people’s discussions.
Drones are hardware that can practically help us with filming, delivery, entertainment, and other scenarios in our daily lives.
AI is software that can solve our problems in various ways, such as AI programming, AI drawing, AI video, and AI assistants.
The cost of both drones and AI graphics cards is around $100, which is sufficient for beginners. Compared to servers, Python, front-end development, embedded systems, and the Internet of Things, AI clearly has a much greater impact and higher commercial value.
Ten years ago it was e-commerce, seven years ago it was self-media, five years ago it was programming, and three years ago it was AI. Currently, apart from AI, there are basically no other disruptive things.
If there are any, then the future might be quantum mechanics, aliens, metaphysics, theology, and magic.