[occz]

You'll be waiting for a long time then, probably. Making codecs is actually a hard problem, the type of thing that AI completely falls over when tasked with.

[lxgr]

Compression is actually a very good use case for neural networks (i.e. don't have an LLM develop a codec, but rather train a neural network to do the compression itself).

It works amazingly well with text compression, for example: https://bellard.org/nncp/

[circuit10]

Considering AI is good at predicting things and that’s largely what compression does, I could see machine learning techniques being useful as a part of a codec though (which is a completely different thing from asking ChatGPT to write you a codec)

[lyu07282]

Yeah in the future we might use some sort of learned spatial+temporal representation to compress video, same for audio. Its easier to imagine for audio: Instead of storing the audio samples, we store text + some feature vectors that uses some model to "render" the audio samples.