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submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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 169 points 11 months ago

why do i care what obama feels about either of these

[-] ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 60 points 11 months ago

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 45 points 11 months ago

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 2 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 51 points 11 months 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 20 points 11 months 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.

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

That just muzak for a visual medium.

[-] Fungah@lemmy.world 5 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.

[-] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah, also I think there is something about the human connection and communicating personal ideas and feelings that just isn't there with AI generated art. I could see a case for an argument that a lot of music today is recorded by artists who didn't write that music, and that they are expressing their own feelings through their performance of someone else's creation. And is it really all that different if an AI wrote something that resonated with an artist who ultimately performed it? Which for a good chunk of pop-culture regurgitations may be completely valid. But in my opinion, the best art, communicates emotion, which an experience unique to biology, AI might be able to approximate it, and sure there's a human prompting the AI who might genuinely have those feelings, but there's a hollowness to it that I struggle to ignore. But maybe I'm just getting older and will be yelling at clouds before long.

[-] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago

If he got super wild and crazy by wearing a tan suit again to work would you?

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