Caution: Generating Music is Addictive
tag > ML
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We're approaching a critical juncture in human communication. In the next few years, artificial neural networks will play a crucial role in mediating the majority of our interactions.
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Today in the "fall of western civilization": Kissinger & Schmidt on AI Enlightenment 🤡
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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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The notion that "intelligence" and "life" is a "distinct thing" that is contained "in a box" is likely one of the most short-sighted dogmatisms in current AI & Neuroscience culture.
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A Microsoft forum thread from November 23rd 2022 (a week before even ChatGPT had been launched) where a user in India complains about rude behavior from a new Bing chat mod
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Introducing Polymath v0.2: Now with "Auto Music Transcription" that uses machine learning to generate MIDI files from any audio file (incl of extracted stems) 2) Docker setup, making the tool easier to use 3) Many improvements by open source contributors.
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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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Pastors' view: Sermons written by ChatGPT will have no soul
A religious Sermon generated by ChatGPT about "The Love of God and his views on AI" 🤡
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Graph from “A Survey on the Uptake of Music AI Software.” by Knotts, and Collins. n.d. - Study from 2020 saying no musicians use AI-based music production support tools. This will change very rapidly now.
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Prediction: Before the end of 2023, very expressive and high quality generative singing voices will become available open source. It will be a deeply transformative technology for music and culture.
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The Music AI space is currently dominated by commercial services that are closed-source black-boxes. Where is the DIY punk alternative to these glossy corporate pop music atrocities?
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Is the time people spend talking with chatbots inversely correlated with the time people spend talking with people?
