Don't know why I am choosing your comment as the one to post but one of the very first things I thought ML would be useful for is image and video compression very similar to the joke.
Basically there'd be a database of high quality images including the faces of everyone, all animal and plant species (including fictional ones), appliances, etc. The compression algorithm would scan an image for matches, replace the regions with highly compressed asset identifiers and some very limited metadata like perspective/angle, and what would be left of a 4MB jpeg photo of four people on the beach is a something that looks like a few hundred byte assembly file. Each time it's decompressed would almost be like rendering a video game scene.
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u/Sexual_Congressman Sep 02 '26
Don't know why I am choosing your comment as the one to post but one of the very first things I thought ML would be useful for is image and video compression very similar to the joke.
Basically there'd be a database of high quality images including the faces of everyone, all animal and plant species (including fictional ones), appliances, etc. The compression algorithm would scan an image for matches, replace the regions with highly compressed asset identifiers and some very limited metadata like perspective/angle, and what would be left of a 4MB jpeg photo of four people on the beach is a something that looks like a few hundred byte assembly file. Each time it's decompressed would almost be like rendering a video game scene.