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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” (musictech.com)
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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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[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 155 points 11 months ago (2 children)

why do i care what obama feels about either of these

[–] ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 4 points 11 months ago

Fully agreed, hence the "most" :^)

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months 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...

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FLP22012005@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

That just muzak for a visual medium.

[–] Fungah@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months 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.