Comment on Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”

_number8_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I very rarely care for what most 62 year olds have to say about the capabilities about the theoretical limits of computation.

  This isn't much different.

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If the 62 year old had studied computer science and had specialized in AI, I would listen closely to them.

    But I definitely not care about a politician that has no idea about technology.

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    • WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unfortunately when it comes to medical experts, many ignore them and listen to their aunt with the healing crystals, or their buddy that skipped most of his high school science classes to go smoke behind the school instead…

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    • ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fully agreed, hence the "most" :^)

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• phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean — he’s defending human creativity and he’s kind of right. AI can recreate variations of the things it is trained on, but it doesn’t create new paradigms.

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  • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, also I think there is something about the human connection and communicating personal ideas and feelings that just isn’t there with AI generated art. I could see a case for an argument that a lot of music today is recorded by artists who didn’t write that music, and that they are expressing their own feelings through their performance of someone else’s creation. And is it really all that different if an AI wrote something that resonated with an artist who ultimately performed it? Which for a good chunk of pop-culture regurgitations may be completely valid. But in my opinion, the best art, communicates emotion, which an experience unique to biology, AI might be able to approximate it, and sure there’s a human prompting the AI who might genuinely have those feelings, but there’s a hollowness to it that I struggle to ignore. But maybe I’m just getting older and will be yelling at clouds before long.

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ahh, kind of like the Chinese.

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    • canni@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Literally the world’s oldest, continuous civilization. Pretty sure they got one or two things out there in the last 4000 years

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  • Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Alphafold?

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• WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If he got super wild and crazy by wearing a tan suit again to work would you?

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