> The guy was a certified beta tester that doesn't understand the complexity of the many, many ai systems and what they're capable of, or how they work.

Neither do you, as is evident from your post. Just how do you think these systems work anyway, a bunch of hard-coded rules?

What could go wrong?

FWIW this is literally one of Yudkowsky’s scenarios for how AI could end us.

been inside too long

IS an early sign.

Yeah it's fine most of the time as long as you treat it carefully, what could go wrong? We might as well go ahead and put it in a position of authority where it's making crucial real-time decisions about infrastructure.

First time was HAL 9000.

> It used to be a place to read optimism around the tech that would lead to a radical transformation of society.

Optimism is in short supply these days, I think this is more a reflection of reality than anything else.

It hasn't done anything bad YET.

This estimate seems extremely conservative...? Only 100cm in 130 years?

the most important skill of the future is judgement

they are wrong

Hilarious that your reasonable, politely-worded post has been downvoted to zero. I agree with you, for this and other reasons, but it doesn't seem a very popular opinion on this sub and I'm not quite sure why. Posters here seem to take delight in the idea of people's jobs being eliminated and Skynet taking over, not sure the appeal. Many fantasize about UBI while forgetting the real 'alignment problem' between elite classes and the rest of society...

I’d rather say that by the time AI ca n do all those things, we’ll have bigger problems than musicians and artists being replaced, at that point AI will be able to do everything better than humans.

> Because… at the moment , making “the best” music still requires some degree of skill and talent. What do you think will happen once we have AI that can generate music better than today’s best artists with a few descriptive text prompts? What happens to the market for music when anyone can generate an entire album full of songs personally tailored to their specific tastes for free with AI? Do you still think people will bother listening to (or financially supporting) music created by other people?

Will this happen before or after my full self-driving Tesla can drive me to work in a snowstorm in New England?

Another point -- using MusicLM to create drumbeats or riffs for an electronic dance track could actually be a MORE creative process for many producers that the ways they are doing it now, since many people are simply sifting through a library of samples to find their basic musical building blocks. Using a text-to-music generator to make your beats instead seems potentially a much more creative process, and personally I will embrace this as a tool in my own music making as soon as its available. I don't see this as replacing my 30 years of education and experience as a musician -- rather -- my background as a musician and artist enables me to get much better use out of AI tools and get the results I want.

Let me try.

With regard to music, its already very easy to produce formulaic derivative music without AI, you can simply buy all the samples online and snap them together. You can buy vocal a cappellas and use them or hire a studio singer online for cheap.

This has led to a flood of mediocre music ALREADY, we're well down that road, but somehow the best artists still manage to rise the top by creating work that moves people, regardless what tools were used. I believe that this situation will continue well into the future, and AI-art that can replace human artists is still as far off as 100% reliable self-driving cars, another chimera.

r/iamverysmart

The problem with your ideas here is that you have no proof or evidence it will work out this way.

I’m a musician too, strongly agree with you.

I think there's no one steering the ship. Thinking it's all a big conspiracy is just more copium tbh, pretending that someone is in control even if they're some evil elite.

In reality the world system is too complex to steer like that.

I do recommend watching Adam Curtis' documentary series 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace,' it's all about this.

Why would I want to listen to this tho?

Weed.

Yeah Starbucks is a perfect substitute for libraries woo hoo.

FAANG companies just laid off 100,000 tech people so this may not be such a problem soon.

Let that sink in.