especially on the Agentic AI front

I have been playing around with Cursor. Extremely handy. But you really gotta be careful with it. The AI agents can wreak havoc on your code. Gotta make sure you are using git. lol!

We are in a place where I am literally questioning what it means to be sentient being. Kurzweil was right about the singularity, but I think it is approaching sooner rather than later. We are truly in an age where we can no longer predict the future, even a little bit; and what is beyond the event horizon is a complete black box.

It is both extremely terrifying and exhilarating.... In a "let's jump into a lake full of crocodiles and see what happens" kind of way.

PS: Check your Discord more often! I want to schedule a call / online meeting with you

I will try! I have been so busy with our company lately it leaves little time for anything else. I am about to start another stop motion project that may be quite intense. I might have to hire some extra animators and prop builders, but we'll see.

realistic video and voice imitation like in this video

You know, people keep saying "Yeah but it will never be perfect, or x, y z etc" I say just wait a couple of months... or a few weeks. One think the video generators can't seem to get right yet (because they don't get enough training on the individual) is the way their teeth look and the way the muscles work in an individual's mouth. The mouths always look wrong. I wouldn't put it past the AI to soon be able to look at the skin of the face and be able to calculate all of the loose and tight muscles. We are truly in a weird time.

I'm genuinely concerned about things that are going to happen for which no real solutions exist.

Yep. We are truly screwed in the near future. It may end up being a transitional time leading to a true "Star Trek" style utopia where people spend their lives pursuing happiness. But how will the super rich and greedy deal psychologically with not having more than the rest of us. They will go down fighting tooth and nail.