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If you stopped listening to Dylan after his first few albums you might describe him as an anti-war, protest singer. But by Bringing It All Back Home (1965) he w
by slibhb 4y ago
If you stopped listening to Dylan after his first few albums you might describe him as an anti-war, protest singer. But by Bringing It All Back Home (1965) he was -- for the most part -- done with that. "Time passes and love fades" are awfully general themes but not inaccurate.
Dylan's transition away from the "protest singer" shtick is quite a famous story. Songs like Maggie's Farm, Queen Jane Approximately, and Positively 4th Street are about his dissatisfaction with the politically-charged folk scene. Since then he's gone through country and gospel phases and reinvented himself many times. The author isn't aware of any of this: Dylan, to him, is a protest singer because he knows The Times They Are a-Changin'.
Watson may be a scam but this dynamic highlights a strength of AI: it's less likely to have the sort of subjective blindspots that people have.
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- elzbardico 4y agoAnd yet "love fades" completely fail to describe Bob Dylan main themes. It is a lame answer, shallow and. ironically, the kind of thing I would expect hearing from an IBM MBA sales person when describing Dylan.
- kitd 4y agoThe "love fades" quote comes from the Adweek piece about Watson and is not directly attributable to Rubin or any IBMer. There's little reason to believe that was one of the main themes that Watson took from Dylan's work. It is effectively Schrank reporting on an article reporting on whatever source they had, probably human.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago> subjective blindspot Even a balanced opinion in a topic necessitates blind spots or at least minimizing some content over other. I don’t see your point, can you explain what your expect from a generalized AI?
- fijiaarone 4y agoSaying that folk music was about protesting the Vietnam war is like saying feminist literature is about stopping climate change. Most of the same people have most of the same beliefs in common, but that doesn’t make one opinion on one topic their entire reason for existence.