I’m surprised nobody has used this.
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Wonder who’s behind this… Spotify certainly seem to be pushing “them” (it?) a lot, with the music having been featured in numerous Spotify compiled playlists, although not sure how much of a human touch is behind those either.
Just given it a quick listen out of curiosity and whilst it’s obviously bad, it’s not noticeably AI generated - if you blindly listened to a playlist containing some of those tracks I think most people would have a hard time identifying which were AI generated.
Also wonder how long it will be until we have a reverse Gorillaz type situation - AI band/songwriters, image and “recordings” with a real life touring band. Maybe already happening?
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just a bit unnerving that the ‘Godfather of AI’ is so pessimistic
I sell AI for a living ( not just AI but…)
Ive read all the doom scrolls about it eating all entry level jobs ( & my daughter just about to go to Uni & doing apprenticeship for a big corp)
I wrestle with it trying to help me do a simple graph in Excel which it wont
Did Excel reduce the number of Accountants?
If it makes you more productive then everyone will do stuff that wasnt worth doing before but AI makes it easier / cheaper
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I’ve been doing various low-end bits but it’s all short term jobs, model training, tutoring, evaluations things like that. It’s hard to plan ahead, I don’t know what to reskill in or what kind of long-term approach to take because it’s impossible to know who/what will be needed even in a year’s time.
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Teenage daughters aren’t having it-at all. I get told off for using Chat GPT because of its environmental impact.
Consensus seems to be that GenZ has embraced it in the media but this isn’t my experience
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Was chatting with a mate last night who works in comms. Says he uses AI a lot. Where once he would pass his work to a copywriter to finesse he now just takes whatever’s spat out by the AI platform he’s using. The output is better in his view.
Sample of one but still…
My daughter used it a fair bit for gcse revision. Well see in August whether that was a good or bad thing.
This is my work too and yes it definitely improves copy. I’m using it more and more.
I teach at a university and there’s been a steady stream of horror stories regarding AI over the last few years and a mass hysteria about the end of knowledge or education.
I’ll get a cohort each year who clearly just stick the essay question into ChatGPT and copy that. It’s been relatively obvious among the students I teach who is using ChatGPT. You get certain words or phrases that regularly appear, there’s an AI essay structure too that is a bit of a tell, and ultimately ChatGPT writes essays that satisfy the algorithm so the work is often very low quality, based on all sorts of made up ‘facts’, references etc and ultimately just not very good.
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I have been enjoying Neural Viz’s output for example, I have no issue describing Viz as an artist, using new mediums to create.
I figure I feel differently about anyone putting out something with the assistance of AI and not disclosing the use of it? ‘I outsourced a skill instead of developing it myself’. Like you say some people will care about integrity, many/most won’t.
I don’t know how far we are from being able to input: ‘Using this pop acapella make me a mainstream dance remix using major chords in the style of David Guetta’ - and having something pop out of the oven.
This is where Viz is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTqB2grDB5E
A mate of mine has been using it as a counsellor for his problems. Says it’s helpful (but then I think it’s designed to tell us what we want to hear)
You’re spot on here, I’ve been enjoying this guy’s writing on the AI hype bubble. A sane voice among all the recycled PR bull…
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FFS
Really interesting, best thing I have read in a long time …
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“The system as it stands selects people at all levels of management specifically because they resemble the kind of specious, work-averse dullard that runs seemingly every company”
Met many of these in my time, most notably at the BBC…
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I tried reading this but couldn’t get through it.
So twisted up and ranty.
The irony is that he starts out making fun of the idea that anyone would want a tool to summarise long form content (podcasts in his example) then writes 87 long winded paragraphs that really needs summarising…
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I’ve always wondered about the lack of accountability for execs. It’s the startup type culture isn’t it? That we’re going to have a big punt on this concept and see it through to the end one way or the other, and burn through the capital that’s been raised, and if it doesn’t work it’s not a ‘failure’ it’s a ‘learning’, and then we go again on whatever the new thing is.
they don’t need to make a case around why to pursue this strategy at the expense of others. The answer to that question is just: everybody’s doing it so we’re doing it too?
Not my area of expertise, perhaps it’s always been like this at the big end of town.
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