A.I. music
Possibly of interest: "the current rush to advance generative AI technology could be "spiritually, politically, and economically" corrosive. By effectively removing people, like musicians, from algorithms and tech that create new content, elements of society that were once connections between people are turned into "objects" that become less interesting and meaningful, Lanier explained.
"As soon as you have the algorithms taking music from musicians, mashing it up into new music, and then not paying the musicians, gradually you start to undermine the economy because what happens to musicians now happens to everybody later," Lanier said.
He noted that, while this year has been the "year of AI," next year the world is going to be "flooded, flooded with AI-generated music."
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-jaron-lanier-ai-advancing-without-human-dignity-undermines-everything-2023-10
Well, if you've into playing an AIs' 'mind' and intro iT into Your concept of You might provide that and your experience with this lil pet. No litter box or 'outs'....'feeding' something you do already. I have no relationship with these people or their event...tempted? Well... Think of a pet you can argue with, and yet teach it to be anything you'd consider it to do... "...answer my SPAM cell calls for me....be undecisive...but cheerful..." 😏 |
Good conversation. I assume you are all real. I appreciate @mahgister pointing out that the social and economic systems controlling A.I.’s development and uses require the greatest scrutiny. Of course, we’re all raised to resist criticisms of economic and political systems. In that sense, we have already ceded a fair amount of autonomy to algorithms -- it’s just that they’re human-made ideologies. (If you find yourself revolted at that idea, you might just be the victim of an ideology.) Thanks for additional insight, @sfgak
Be nice if we cured cancer with A.I., no? This will be a test about how much we care about our children and one another. We cannot give in to pessimism. We have to question our presumptions -- and that may mean questioning the profit-motive (sacred cow!) and any other fixed ideas which prevent us from safeguarding what we value. As T.S. Eliot said, "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." |
The term "AI" is, in itself, both artificial and unintelligent. There is nothing artificial about human engineering algorithms that process ones and zeros to reach outcomes directed by -- humans. Just faster computations by machines that can toil endlessly to produce workable outcomes quicker than unaided humans. And, yes, arrive at (valid) conclusions to complex scenarios that would be impossible without machine interaction. In AI music, we assume we are getting an aggregate of a vast pool of the creative minds of many individuals to produce something of value. So, an AI music designer decides to "scrub" all diminished 7ths in the musical score and "scrub" any reference to "cars", or any mode of transportation from the lyrics. You/we may "like" what we hear. But, we could also be hearing a highly personal human contribution to the final product, while being completely unaware that certain aspects have been "canceled" due to bias, and/or personal agenda. Accurate musical history can be erased forever, and our all-knowing current AI references tell us that we’re only imagining that diminished 7th were once commonplace in popular music and references to "modes of transportation" were .. moving. |
