"we like music in the abstract as a series of numbers" seemed like a nod to AI or quantization general. Now, it might have just been genuine instead of an ironic statement. Also explains an unreadable-to-humans giant table in the middle of the article.
> What hits me immediately is how perfect the vocals are. There are melodic leaps in the verse that are incredibly difficult to nail, and Bruno Mars is hitting every single note pitch-perfect and in absolutely perfect time.
Isn't every song recorded as every word singularly at a certain pitch? And timing done completely in the DAW instead of while recording.
Barely was singing when a friend of mine did ``professional'' recording, and had to know each pitch of a song to perfection, since no overlap was ever sung.
Now was there autotune? dunno. its not like some people who've obviously been tuned. There are some people who are really that good. Michael bauble is one of them
Yeah, and the noise is also per model, run the same model five or ten times and put the confidence around it. Then try different models and different workflows. Thats actually how I do it when I build workflows and automations: test, test, and test, collect the statistic on where and what works better, then combine.
German nerd here. I know next to nothing about "the interesting parts of the Holmes/Theranos story", is there a documentary on the facts instead of the villain somewhere?
I don't know of any worthy documentary, but I have read the book "Bad Blood" [0], which I thought was thorough, well written and, to me, an excellent read.
> Tyler Shultz went to work at Theranos right out of Stanford and soon noticed that things weren't as they seemed. Lots of other employees knew there was something fishy going on, but Tyler was one of a tiny handful able to resist the mesmerizing and intimidating Elizabeth Holmes and speak out about the fraud that was putting patients at risk.
process information and generate an output is really enough. A calculator is mentioned in Wikipedia as being an AI technology, and we feared students would no longer learn and understand calculus and the people who worked as Computers at companies would lose that job. Only one of both came true, and the math nerds still get a job at different tasks with a different title.
Okay, now no one can add numbers at scale since Excel exists and calculates at the accuracy limits of a counter-top calculator. But in theory, spreadsheets can be intelligent solving tools.
It's the drawing of conclusions where I see the intelligence. The other two steps are the input and output mechanisms - I deliberately avoided the mention of what sensors would be used or how the actions would be carried out.
A calculator does not draw conclusions. Neither does excel - it just passes variables through a tree of if and while statements - the developer drew the conclusions when he wrote the excel formulae. Same with e.g. a PERL script.
AFI, American Freedom Intelligence. Mark my words, dumb people will use that, soon, since ASI/SI is actually the same term by just lazily leaving of a redundant part of the term.
wait, we need more than one future ruler of earth? Won't any two Skynets fight each other for control, which is why the US want to be first, not second, after PRC?
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