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

Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that’s different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

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      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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        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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          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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      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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        People always says AI do create only variations but many successful TV shows are variations. I started watching sitcoms from the 70s and many things were copied/adapted in recent shows.

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          99% of everything people create is a variation.

          Truly innovative anything is RARE.

          There’s just stuff and things people haven’t thought to combine with stuff yet.

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          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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      1 year ago

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