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Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve has become a woke, sanitized shell of its former self. The crowd of rowdy, inebriated locals and tourists is long gone. What you see now is bouncing and screaming for the latest flash-in-the-pan artists while industry veterans like Duran Duran barely elicit a cheer.
Youtuber and music industry veteran Rick Beato recently posted an interesting video on how Auto-Tune has destroyed popular music. Beato quotes from an interview he did with Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan where the latter stated, "AI systems will completely dominate music. The idea of an intuitive artist beating an AI system is going to be very difficult." AI is making inroads into visual art as well, and hackers, artists and others seem to be embracing it with enthusiasm.
AI seems to be everywhere lately, from retrofitting decades old manufacturing operations to online help desk shenanigans to a wearable assistant to helping students cheat. Experts are predicting AI to usher in the next cyber security crisis and the end of programming as we know it.
Will there be a future where AI can and will do everything? Where artists are judged on their talents with a keyboard/mouse instead of a paintbrush or guitar? And what about those of us who will be developing the systems AI uses to produce stuff? Will tomorrow's artist be the programming genius who devises a profound algorithm that can produce stuff faster, or more eye/ear-appealing, where everything is completely computerized and lacking any humanity? Beato makes a good point in his video on auto-tune, that most people don't notice when something has been digitally altered, and quite frankly, they don't care either.
Will the "purists" among us be disparaged and become the new "Boomers"? What do you think?.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2023, @01:00PM (3 children)
"a profound algorithm that can produce stuff faster, or more eye/ear-appealing"
The analogy is cranking out 70's sitcoms faster.
People today want something edgy and different.
They still crank out stories using the basic formulas
but every author brings personal experience and
knowledge that can't be bucketed into a weighted
neural network.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2023, @01:25PM (2 children)
Exactly. And how exactly is AI mimicry robot ever going to do punk? Or scathing, insightful comedy. At best it's going to do shitty rapid fire 1-liners to its own laugh track. At which point it will achieve self-consciousness and nuke itself, What The Fuck Have I Become???
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2023, @05:30PM (1 child)
"it's going to do shitty rapid fire 1-liners"
someone actually built one.
it could respond to laughter, or the lack of it
and change its path through the laugh maze
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2023, @03:13PM
Groundhog Day for the poor AI.