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”.

      • Inmate@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        If he’s an unqualified bystander, then what the fuck are you?

        I’m always surprised that the people with all the answers only share them with thirty other assholes on the Internet.

        I’m confident a 14 year old can write their own AI, maybe even a smart 10 year old.

        Here’s instructions for kids:

        https://youtu.be/XJ7HLz9VYz0?si=1QN3fqT03HSMufib

        You think Obama can’t wrap his head around a little algebra?

        Why, when speaking intelligently and thoughtfully in the subject, is he so wrong in his assessment, when you, in one lazy sentence, are so right?

        I’m really worried about would-be wise people just throwing in the towel cause they don’t know how much better they could be with a little discipline, and settle for being clever here and there.

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          11 months ago

          As far as I know, Obama has nothing to do with IT and doesn’t have a big interest in it. A lot of people on here are probably more qualified than he is when it comes to these topics simply because they spent a lot of their free time learning about it.

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          11 months ago

          Are you saying that Barack Obama and Dr. Dre both are equally unqualified to talk about “AI”? What other similarities do they share that makes you reach for Dr. Dre so quickly? Do you believe that Obama or Dre are incapable of interacting with computers or understanding computer science? Do you think that people who look like “thugs” to a person like you might be capable of learning and performing complex tasks?

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      11 months ago

      Because you can teach a teen to do it in two weeks. He was a constitutional law professor, as well as the first elected African-American president in the United States. I learned LLMs in a couple months and I never used a comp until 2021. Why are you gatekeeping?

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        11 months ago

        Using the end product and having any idea how it works are two VERY different things.

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          11 months ago

          I agree, my argument is that both aren’t challenging for even the average person if they really want/need to understand how these models produce refined noise informed by human patterns.

          There are electricians everywhere you know.

          This isn’t a random person thoughtlessly yelling one-sentence nonsense pablum on the Internet like you.

          You think this person can’t understand something as straightforward as programming, coming from law?

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

          Please link your Wikipedia below 🫠

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            11 months ago

            It’s a bit more complicated than you’re making it out to be lmfao, there’s a reason it’s only really been viable for the past few years.

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              11 months ago

              The principles are really easy though. At its core, neural nets are just a bunch of big matrix multiplication operations. Training is still fundamentally gradient descent, which while it is a fairly new concept in the grand scheme of things, isn’t super hard to understand.

              The progress in recent years is primarily due to better hardware and optimizations at the low levels that don’t directly have anything to do with machine learning.

              We’ve also gotten a lot better at combining those fundamentals in creative ways to do stuff like GANs.

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      11 months ago

      Because he’s a world leader and AI programs are answering search engine queries with what you want to hear now, not actual answers. Ain;t no way hes unaware that.