I just wrote a song with lyrics and chords supplied by #ChatGPT!
Recorded it for you, enjoy!
The prompt:
"Create an emo song with lyrics and guitar chords that evoke sadness and loneliness. Make the chorus have different chords than the verses."
Verse 1:
G C
Lost and alone
Am D
In this cold world
G C
My heart is a stone
Am D
No one to hold
Chorus:
F C
Emptiness fills me
G D
Loneliness chokes me
F C
I am fading away
G D
In my own misery
(There's more but no room)
Two things here: First, good luck to all the publishers and agents who will face a torrent of this glossy, incomprehensible shit over the next few years.
Second: For real creators, this will add to the growing swamp of unfiltered shit that new books find themselves in online. The sheer quantities that these can be produced in will make real books even harder to find.
#AI #ChildrensBooks #Publishing #SelfPublishing #Writer #Art #Illustration #AIArt
"Here’s the thing, though: the system will frequently give the wrong answers * the real skill in the homework assignment will be in verifying the answers the system churns out — learning how to be a verifier and an editor, instead of a regurgitator.
What is compelling about this new skillset is that it isn’t simply a capability that will be increasingly important in an AI-dominated world: it’s a skillset that is incredibly valuable today. "
stratechery.com/2022/ai-homewo…
The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Last night, I collaborated with the #ChatGPT #AI to create a visual simulated world of bugs.
The experience was fascinating, felt like magic, and reaffirmed for me how much humans matter in the creative process.
I've written about this #project, going over my thoughts, showing a demo, and giving a detailed step-by-step of how we built this, together:
blog.chipx86.com/2022/12/02/pe…
Source code: github.com/chipx86/chatgpt-ai-…
Demo: youtube.com/watch?v=XVB9Tzv91K…
AI has been all the rage lately, with solutions like Stable Diffusion for image generation, GPT-3 for text generation, and CoPilot for code development becoming publicly available to the masses. Th…ChipLog
Fellow academics:
Strongly consider changing your syllabi now, and designing assignments that can't be fulfilled by #AI chatbots. Even better, consider only assigning work that students will actually be excited to do themselves (for instance, autobiographical essays).
I just got OpenAI to write a better essay on #minstrelsy & US #popmusic than most of my UG students could muster, in about 1 second.
![Q: Write a short academic essay about the impact of 19th-Century minstrelsy on 21st-Century American pop music
A: The 19th Century was a time of great change in the United States, including the rise of minstrelsy as a popular form of entertainment. Minstrelsy, which originated in the 1830s, involved white performers using makeup to blacken their faces and perform caricatured representations of African-American slaves. These performances often included offensive stereotypes and were intended to be humorous, but they were also deeply hurtful and contributed to the spread of racism in American society.
In the 21st Century, the impact of minstrelsy can still be seen in American pop music. Many contemporary pop songs and music videos contain elements that can be traced back to the stereotypes and caricatures of minstrelsy. For example, the use of blackface in music videos and live performances by artists such as Justin Timberlake and Macklemore has sparked controversy and accusations of cultural appropriation.
Furthermore, the exaggerated and offensive stereotypes of African-Americans that were prevalent in minstrelsy continue to be perpetuated in some contemporary pop music. For instance, certain rap and hip-hop songs often portray African-American men as violent and criminal, echoing the damaging stereotypes that were prevalent in minstrel shows.
[essay continues]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/386201 "Q: Write a short academic essay about the impact of 19th-Century minstrelsy on 21st-Century American pop music
A: The 19th Century was a time of great change in the United States, including the rise of minstrelsy as a popular form of entertainment. Minstrelsy, which originated in the 1830s, involved white performers using makeup to blacken their faces and perform caricatured representations of African-American slaves. These performances often included offensive stereotypes and were intended to be humorous, but they were also deeply hurtful and contributed to the spread of racism in American society.
In the 21st Century, the impact of minstrelsy can still be seen in American pop music. Many contemporary pop songs and music videos contain elements that can be traced back to the stereotypes and caricatures of minstrelsy. For example, the use of blackface in music videos and live performances by artists such as Justin Timberlake and Macklemore has sparked controversy and accusations of cultural appropriation.
Furthermore, the exaggerated and offensive stereotypes of African-Americans that were prevalent in minstrelsy continue to be perpetuated in some contemporary pop music. For instance, certain rap and hip-hop songs often portray African-American men as violent and criminal, echoing the damaging stereotypes that were prevalent in minstrel shows.
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Mindblowing 🤯
#Whisper is an #openSource #speechRecognition model written in #Python by #OpenAI. I’ve just seen it in action. Extract an #mp3 from a video, run it through Whisper, and it turns every spoken word into text. It even does a very decent job in #Danish. Perfect for subtitling #TV and #video. I am very impressed.
#ai #language #transcription #speechToText
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision - GitHub - openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak SupervisionGitHub
“Google employee who became the most visible opponent of a company contract with the Israeli military said on Tuesday that she would resign after claiming Google had tried to retaliate against her for her activism.”
#google #military #israel #activism #BigTech #ai
A Google employee who became the most visible opponent of a company contract with the Israeli military said on Tuesday…inkl
Upscayl - Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler; a cross-platform application built with the Linux-first philosophy. This means that we prioritize Linux builds over others but that doesn't mean we'll break things for other OSes :)
#upscale #image #ai #foss #linux #app #photos #graphics #tool
🆙 Upscayl - Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy. - GitHub - upscayl/upscayl: 🆙 Upscayl - Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for...GitHub
traineepodcast_02episode_news.jpg Welcome to the second episode of this podcast series focused on a three-step approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI), organised by the trainees of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and European Data Pro…European Data Protection Supervisor
RT @DorotheaBaur@twitter.com
#AI doesn't only show #bias "against protected characteristics like race and gender, it finds new ways to categorize and discriminate..." It "creates new groups that are not protected under the law to make important decisions". Good point, @SandraWachter5@twitter.com businessinsider.com/ai-discrim…
🐦🔗: twitter.com/DorotheaBaur/statu…
A Google engineer voiced his theory that a chatbot was sentient. Experts say it's not that clever and the hype overshadows the real threat of AI bias.Isobel Asher Hamilton (Insider)
#SurveillanceCapitalism Spreading In #Schools, Sidelining Role Of #Teachers.
My Take: putting children under 24/7 monitoring, is harmful to natural development + #autonomy.
Ex: intense security (like recent proposal to add armed taser drones + force children to train with them) may do little more than put kids in more fear.
#News #Education #Privacy #HumanRights #AI progressive.org/public-schools…
Ed-tech companies are mining and exploiting students’ data while sidelining the role of teachers.Velislava Hillman (Progressive.org)
Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
#ai #bias #racism #startups #vc #BigTech #computerSaysNo
A Florida teenager taking a biology class at a community college got an upsetting note this year. A startup called…inkl
We have NO IDEA what type of ppl w/be in power (or incorp this) in the future.
Too many ppl reflect only on today.
Gifting MASSIVE total control tech, over all humans, using combined #AI + #Biometrics + Mass #Surveillance + fusion centers.
Corporate interests. Discreet power struggles.
Anything short of a full ban today is (at best) a hope future leaders will care more about your children's freedom than they do donor profits & digital dictatorship dreams.
i'm derek, he/him. currently in central california and have lived in new york for a bit too
originally went through #music school up through #dma (lol i'd be surprised if that hashtag actually worked and referred to doctor of musical arts) studying #percussion with aspirations of being a "new music" percussionist but didn't stick the landing in music academia. i got a #math degree somewhere along the way and had been getting heavily into #computermusic and #creativecoding sorts of things working at a media lab during the dma so when covid, hit decided to go back to (online) grad school studying computer science. things i'm really into studying cs-wise are #ai/#ml things (more leaning on the ai-side but we'll see) and "soft-cs"/"extra-cs" sorta intersectional things like #hci and #education and starting to read about #computationalcreativity and other things. not sure where my cs studies will go yet but it'd be nice be able to research ai things more. also, i'm really into #foss / #linux sorta things.
other things i'm into are anime and manga (mostly iyashikei, mecha, and ikuhara things), video games, riichi mahjong, animals (mostly cats, sea otters and puffins), stars are cool, and also vast desolate expanses.
think my website better sums up things: derekxkwan.com/
