11 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”
Why would top engineers tell their settings, mic positions, etc? Would be like telling some guy hitting on your girlfriend what she likes, her turn-ons, etc etc!!! And notice that none of this talks about being a musician in your own right, having golden ears that can hear when something is right (with the music, not the girlfriend)
AI isn’t looking so great these days!
Dear Chat GPT … How did Led Zeppelin get the amazing echo of the drum kit in their tune When The Levee Breaks
“Good question, you’re a serious rock aficionado who really knows his stuff! I’ll let Rick Beato answer that question for you.”
PS Chat GPT … music and sound are analog. It’s how airwaves are disturbed and how those disturbances are received by the mechanical components of the human (and/or animal) ear. There is FAR more involved in recording that music than EQ levels on a mixing board.
It’s the reason why vinyl still reigns supreme in the reproduction of sound because it is a finely tuned MECHANICAL device that delivers complex sound to our MECHANICAL sensory receptors. This is what we call … the REAL world.
“It’s the reason why vinyl still reigns supreme…”
…except that most of what’s on vinyl anymore is an analog rendering of a -digital- recording. ~:D
Because who still records to tape, Kenji? It’s a lost art.
Now, I do recall one punk album that recorded live to -vinyl-, as in they cut the master disk right off the live performance of the band. Also called “direct to disk”.
It was “Rough Trade Live!” featuring Carole Pope, catalogue “Umbrella – UMB DD1” Double LP containing the hit “Birds of a Feather.”
Carole is still around, apparently. Super old lady these days, still performs once in a while.
FILTHY LIBERALS
AI = Another Indian
AI cannot keep a timer. Ask it to time you holding your breath. Ask it to count to a Billion. Or a Million. It won’t.
AI is awesome for Legal Fights. We have been using this tool for a year and have launched a lawfare small claims court action against our Town. 3 lawsuits so far. more to come. Lawyers are doomed. They are so over rated.
Lawyers -I went to Grade 18 and got 60%, now I am smarter than you. No, you are an overpaid googler. I mean CANLii -er
“AI is awesome for Legal Fights.”
Yes it is. We used it fighting a deadbeat tenant. It was at least as helpful as the actual lawyer, because it could go look up all the stupid details that make a difference, and all the stupid court procedures etc. you have to go through.
So at least we knew what the lawyer was doing when they did things, and why that was necessary. Because law is WRITTEN DOWN, and the machine can go look up what was written.
But you must be cautious, because it does make stuff up on its own.
I’ll believe there is some hope that AI works for complicated tasks when the Google AI that generates subtitles for YouTube is able to do better than about 75% accuracy.
Their ewe gough!
+1
OK. I watched. Where was his question “that fried Chat GPT”? Or that “broke AI”?
Showing that AI is clueless and useless for some applications does neither of these. And lying about his affect on the AI makes me not trust him next time he’s linked.
“Where was his question “that fried Chat GPT”? ”
“Tell me how to mic a drum kit.” That was the question. The answer it gave was pure hallucination, because there’s no machine-accessible information on the web for it to copy and regurgitate. So it literally makes up something full of buzzwords and tells you how clever you are for asking. Any match with Reality is coincidental, statistically it will be right occasionally the way a broken clock is right twice a day.
I will tell you right now, there’s no LLM available that can REASON OUT how to mic a drum kit from first principles and equipment specifications. And there is never ever going to be one, either. That is not how they work.
LLMs predict the next letter in a text string based on their training data. That is ALL THEY DO. That’s it. That can be useful, IF you trained it on verifiably true data. Which they don’t.
Why would top engineers tell their settings, mic positions, etc? Would be like telling some guy hitting on your girlfriend what she likes, her turn-ons, etc etc!!! And notice that none of this talks about being a musician in your own right, having golden ears that can hear when something is right (with the music, not the girlfriend)
AI isn’t looking so great these days!
Dear Chat GPT … How did Led Zeppelin get the amazing echo of the drum kit in their tune
When The Levee Breaks
“Good question, you’re a serious rock aficionado who really knows his stuff! I’ll let Rick Beato answer that question for you.”
https://youtu.be/XZYDDX1DHDU?si=8RFYnoUrJM_OBb-G
https://youtu.be/9z76istwXmc?si=UOFZMn3-oyM1kDPt
PS Chat GPT … music and sound are analog. It’s how airwaves are disturbed and how those disturbances are received by the mechanical components of the human (and/or animal) ear. There is FAR more involved in recording that music than EQ levels on a mixing board.
It’s the reason why vinyl still reigns supreme in the reproduction of sound because it is a finely tuned MECHANICAL device that delivers complex sound to our MECHANICAL sensory receptors. This is what we call … the REAL world.
“It’s the reason why vinyl still reigns supreme…”
…except that most of what’s on vinyl anymore is an analog rendering of a -digital- recording. ~:D
Because who still records to tape, Kenji? It’s a lost art.
Now, I do recall one punk album that recorded live to -vinyl-, as in they cut the master disk right off the live performance of the band. Also called “direct to disk”.
It was “Rough Trade Live!” featuring Carole Pope, catalogue “Umbrella – UMB DD1” Double LP containing the hit “Birds of a Feather.”
Carole is still around, apparently. Super old lady these days, still performs once in a while.
FILTHY LIBERALS
AI = Another Indian
AI cannot keep a timer. Ask it to time you holding your breath. Ask it to count to a Billion. Or a Million. It won’t.
AI is awesome for Legal Fights. We have been using this tool for a year and have launched a lawfare small claims court action against our Town. 3 lawsuits so far. more to come. Lawyers are doomed. They are so over rated.
Lawyers -I went to Grade 18 and got 60%, now I am smarter than you. No, you are an overpaid googler. I mean CANLii -er
“AI is awesome for Legal Fights.”
Yes it is. We used it fighting a deadbeat tenant. It was at least as helpful as the actual lawyer, because it could go look up all the stupid details that make a difference, and all the stupid court procedures etc. you have to go through.
So at least we knew what the lawyer was doing when they did things, and why that was necessary. Because law is WRITTEN DOWN, and the machine can go look up what was written.
But you must be cautious, because it does make stuff up on its own.
I’ll believe there is some hope that AI works for complicated tasks when the Google AI that generates subtitles for YouTube is able to do better than about 75% accuracy.
Their ewe gough!
+1
OK. I watched. Where was his question “that fried Chat GPT”? Or that “broke AI”?
Showing that AI is clueless and useless for some applications does neither of these. And lying about his affect on the AI makes me not trust him next time he’s linked.
“Where was his question “that fried Chat GPT”? ”
“Tell me how to mic a drum kit.” That was the question. The answer it gave was pure hallucination, because there’s no machine-accessible information on the web for it to copy and regurgitate. So it literally makes up something full of buzzwords and tells you how clever you are for asking. Any match with Reality is coincidental, statistically it will be right occasionally the way a broken clock is right twice a day.
I will tell you right now, there’s no LLM available that can REASON OUT how to mic a drum kit from first principles and equipment specifications. And there is never ever going to be one, either. That is not how they work.
LLMs predict the next letter in a text string based on their training data. That is ALL THEY DO. That’s it. That can be useful, IF you trained it on verifiably true data. Which they don’t.