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”.

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • Sprokes@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Fungah@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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.

      • canni@lemmy.one
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        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