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Generative AI sparks excitement in countless people eager to explore new storytelling methods, despite them lacking a story to tell. It mirrors those who spend years preparing to create art, only to never actually produce any. Welcome to the era of Great Computational Comedy
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Imagine a future where a handful of powerful incumbents monopolize the burgeoning generative music landscape, using forceful tactics to maintain their stronghold. This would stifle artistic freedom & innovation, even as these giants claim to champion the very opposite.
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Replace most business meetings with group meditations. Silence is far more effective than empty words.
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People that are super excited about the possibility of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) but have no interest in Real General Intelligence (NATURE) are a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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Despite armies of professional "AI Ethicists", "AI Alignment engineers", "AI policy experts", "AGI Risk thought leaders" and countless "Think Tankies", a surge of autonomous AI weapon monstrosities are being released globally right now. This is the exact opposite of intelligence.
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They are all around us...
“Hidden in the surface of the earth, there is a vast mineral consciousness near absolute zero thinking in slow formations of crystal” - W.Burroughs
#Comment: Many forms of super intelligence are with us on earth today. Those worried just about AGI should try expanding their consciousness
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"Live musicians were so terrified of recording their music FDR had to step in"
#Comment: 100y ago, the emergence of recorded music & radio sparked intense debates among musicians, who viewed the new technologies as threats. In hindsight, it's clear that the transformation was swift, all-encompassing & largely positive. We can draw analogies from this experience today
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The Digital Audio Workstation Disconnect
Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) were designed to unleash musicians' creativity, yet their user experience often feels like operating complex and dull business software or sitting in a fighter jet cockpit. How did we end up with such a disconnect between intention & reality?
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Generative Bedtime Stories
A simple yet powerful app using Generative Voices + GPT + Apple Watch: "Bedtimes stories" where the style of the voice & story contents are continuously adapted based on biofeedback, to optimally put you to sleep. Such "Closed-Loop Feedback" tools will become very popular soon.
Illustration from research on "Closed-loop auditory stimulation"
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CLAP: Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining: Paper - Code & Model - Dataset
#Comment: Sometimes it's the simple things that bring joy to the heart: Training an ML model on a few million songs plus meta-data, produces a formidable "neural music search & recommendation engine". A very useful component for downstream applications.
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"The act of saying very little to mean a lot" - Jeff Mills on minimal techno
#Comment: With the emerging generative AI music tools, it's now possible to convert any tune into its minimal components and play with it.
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Why *nix won
"Unix philosophy emphasizes building simple, compact, clear, modular & extensible code that can be easily maintained & repurposed by developers other than its creators. The Unix philosophy favors composability as opposed to monolithic design"
#Comment: There is a bad tendency in machine learning to build tools that are exactly the opposite of the Unix philosophy.
There are many species specific proprietary tools in nature, such as the human hand. But all essential innovations of nature, such as DNA, are wildly used across species in an open source fashion. This dynamic emerges at all scales of organization, from cells to software & beyond
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That a machine learning engineer straight out of school with 0 practical experience earns 10x more income than a Midwife or Nurse with years of experience helping people in critical situations, is a testament to the extreme vulgar stupidity that defines the late capitalist economy.
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Visited my local comic shop and was reminded what art/media culture is all about: Rich experiences that touch all senses, that brings people together. All generated fancy media on screens will quickly become meaningless, if it's not delivered in the right human context.
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I would like many of the these "Psychedelic Entrepreneurs" to get fucked if they are not also invested in protected habitat.
#Comment: That late capitalism succeeded in turning psychedelics in yet another consumer business driven by advertising & "thought leaders" is truly a comedy master piece.
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People that get very excited about the prospect of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) should try Astral Projecting or visit DMT Elves to broaden their perception and appreciation of the grand mystery.
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An avalanche of Generative Spam everywhere. Toxic slug produced at zero marginal cost will suffocate a society already tethering on insanity.
"BuzzFeed will use ChatGPT to create content instead of writers The stock is up 92% today"
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A science paper that gives ChatGPT authorship - and - Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists
#Comment: There is a millennia old tradition east and west of giving authorship to disembodied / imaginary beings, such as ghosts, demons, gins, spirits, angels, gods etc. Giving ChatGPT authorship feels like a continuation of that tradition. It's all fun and games, until they start wars based on the text "it" wrote. The world might be a nicer place though, if people gave authorship to the tree out of which the piece of paper was made on which they write/print, and which created the oxygen we breathe.
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The issue with Nixon's "Madman theory" is that "Any sufficiently advanced simulation of insanity is indistinguishable from insanity” and then 'We become what we behold', as William Blake put it.
