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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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[-] lledrtx@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

AI researcher (PhD) here and for what it's worth, Obama got it extremely right. I saw this and went "holy shit, he gets it"

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah I dont believe you at all. I got my master in AI 8 years ago and have been working in the field ever since and no one with any knowledge would agree with you at all. In fact I showed a couple of my colleagues the headline of this article and they both just laughed.

[-] Azhad@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

If you don't think ai will get there and surpass everything humans have done in the past, you should change career.

[-] lledrtx@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

I'm saying this because I do this for a living. It has become obvious to everyone in research (for example - https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00059) that "AI"s don't understand what they are outputting. The secret sauce with all these large models is the data scale. That is, we have not had real algorithmic breakthroughs - it's just model scale and data scale. So we can make models that mimic human language and music etc but to go beyond, we need multiple fundamentally different breakthroughs. There is a ton of research attention now so it might happen, but it's not guaranteed - the improvements we've seen in the past few years will plateau as data plateaus (we are already there according to some, i.e we've used all the data on the Internet). Also, this - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493v2

[-] Azhad@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

You do it for a living and you can't even understand what a general ai is. Alas I long since understood that mostly everyone is profoundly incompetent at their own jobs.

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