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The lyrics were in fact composed by a neural network (Sheeran) trained on Sheeran's past work, all Sheeran's life experiences up to that point, and any new thin
by wzdd 3y ago
The lyrics were in fact composed by a neural network (Sheeran) trained on Sheeran's past work, all Sheeran's life experiences up to that point, and any new things that he had experienced since releasing his penultimate album. The colleague instead is sarcastically implying that, because they are dull, the lyrics sound like they were produced by a network exclusively trained on previous lyrics. Such a network would not be able to produce any content that was not simply a transformation of previous lyrics.
- chimeracoder 3y ago> The lyrics were in fact composed by a neural network (Sheeran) trained on Sheeran's past work The use of the term "neural network" to refer to artificial intelligence is an interesting and perhaps successful marketing term, but it's not really correct to say that Sheeran's actual works are composed by a "neural network" in the same sense that any computational product is. It's a collision of terminology. In computing, neural networks are at best a model for cerebral computation - and even then, they're an incredibly crude model, as any neuroscientist will tell you that cognition works very differently from LLMs. Even when they arrive at similar outcomes, the paths they take to get there are radically different.
- chaxor 3y agoThey are indeed radically different: one is very well understood in terms of how it works, and the other - neuroscientists have absolutely no idea how it works.