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Chatting with an AI to play a song whose title you know, sure. Getting an AI to play "that song that goes hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm ... uh, it was in some commercials

Chatting with an AI to play a song whose title you know, sure. Getting an AI to play "that song that goes hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm ... uh, it was in some commercials when I was a kid" tho

JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> Getting an AI to play "that song that goes hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm ... uh, it was in some commercials when I was a kid" tho Absolutely. The point is this is a specialised and occasional use case. You don't want to have to go through a chat bot every time you want to play a particular song just because sometimes you might hum at it. The closest we've come to a widely-adopted AR interface are AirPods. Critically, however, they work by mimicing how someone would speak to a real human by them.
fragmede 1y ago
more abstract than that, "I'm throwing a wedding/funeral/startup IPO/Halloween/birthday party for a whatever year old and need appropriate music". Or, without knowing specific bands, "I want to hear some 80's metal music". "more cowbell!"
- array_key_first 1y ago
  You don't need AI for this, Spotify has, like, infinite playlists. Also their playlists are made by real people (mostly...), so they don't completely suck ass.
  - fragmede 1y ago
    Playlists aren't interactive though. I can't say "like this but with less guitar". Also, following the Beatport top 100 tech house playlist, and hearing how many tracks aren't actually tech house makes me wonder about who makes that particular playlist.
    - array_key_first 1y ago
      I don't know, I don't buy that this is a use case that matters enough to sway anyone. That's how I feel about a lot of AI stuff. Like... It's neat. It's a fun novelty. It makes a good party trick. It's the software equivalent of a knick knack. Like 90% of the pixel AI features. There's some good ones in there, sure, but most of them you play around with for a day and then forget exist.
      - fragmede 1y ago
        Okay so you're at the party, and you do a cool party trick, and then that cute stranger you've been eyeing all night finally comes over to talk to you. Why's it need to be more than that?
        array_key_first 1y ago
        Because we're pouring trillions of dollars into that. This isn't me making a cute little website in my free time. This is thousands of developers, super computers out the wazoo, and a huge chunk of the western economy. Like, a snowglobe is cute. They don't do much, but they're cute. I'd buy one for ten dollars. I would not buy a snowglobe for 10 million dollars.

Chatting with an AI to play a song whose title you know, sure. Getting an AI to play "that song that goes hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm ... uh, it was in some commercials when I was a kid" tho

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

> Getting an AI to play "that song that goes hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm ... uh, it was in some commercials when I was a kid" tho Absolutely. The point is this is a specialised and occasional use case. You don't want to have to go through a chat bot every time you want to play a particular song just because sometimes you might hum at it. The closest we've come to a widely-adopted AR interface are AirPods. Critically, however, they work by mimicing how someone would speak to a real human by them.

fragmede 1y ago

more abstract than that, "I'm throwing a wedding/funeral/startup IPO/Halloween/birthday party for a whatever year old and need appropriate music". Or, without knowing specific bands, "I want to hear some 80's metal music". "more cowbell!"

array_key_first 1y ago
You don't need AI for this, Spotify has, like, infinite playlists. Also their playlists are made by real people (mostly...), so they don't completely suck ass.
- fragmede 1y ago
  Playlists aren't interactive though. I can't say "like this but with less guitar". Also, following the Beatport top 100 tech house playlist, and hearing how many tracks aren't actually tech house makes me wonder about who makes that particular playlist.
  - array_key_first 1y ago
    I don't know, I don't buy that this is a use case that matters enough to sway anyone. That's how I feel about a lot of AI stuff. Like... It's neat. It's a fun novelty. It makes a good party trick. It's the software equivalent of a knick knack. Like 90% of the pixel AI features. There's some good ones in there, sure, but most of them you play around with for a day and then forget exist.
    - fragmede 1y ago
      Okay so you're at the party, and you do a cool party trick, and then that cute stranger you've been eyeing all night finally comes over to talk to you. Why's it need to be more than that?
      - array_key_first 1y ago
        Because we're pouring trillions of dollars into that. This isn't me making a cute little website in my free time. This is thousands of developers, super computers out the wazoo, and a huge chunk of the western economy. Like, a snowglobe is cute. They don't do much, but they're cute. I'd buy one for ten dollars. I would not buy a snowglobe for 10 million dollars.