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by dwringer 4y ago
I tried making a clown using stable diffusion one day by blending 3 different clown-generating prompts together, and the result that came out was a horrifyingly grotesque inhuman monster. I've never had that happen just blending prompt
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by dwringer 4y ago
Thanks for that great perspective, I can absolutely see the benefit of the new design in a cramped display or at lower resolutions. OTOH, the comparison at 4k is strikingly different.
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by dwringer 4y ago
They usually (or often) have them, but often the most common tunes in the first few Real Book volumes (and other standards) have been memorized so they never actually pull them out. When I used to sit in with some guys from the local univer
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by dwringer 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the connotation of being unlicensed had something to do with it, but growing up (and studying jazz with many accomplished musicians) I always heard the etymology that it has always referred to faking one&#x27
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by dwringer 4y ago
Thanks, I had this in a lower comment but it should really be at the top. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26737142
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by dwringer 4y ago
That's a fair point, but "The Real Book" was always referred to as a 'fake book' by every Jazz musician I ever met, though. I honestly don't think licensing has anything to do with the term. For decades a legal
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by dwringer 4y ago
I always understood it in the context of "fake your way through", but I think it's versus the alternative of knowing the song - and thus, not requiring music. If you need to use a lead sheet, then the best you can do is fak
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by dwringer 4y ago
Almost poignant though.
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by dwringer 4y ago
This immediately made me think of Wikipedia's latest change that moves their main menu behind just such a hamburger button on desktop, and replaces it with a table of contents down the left side. Now instead of lazily clicking from one
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by dwringer 4y ago
> but part of being a professional is being able to pretend those mistakes didn't exist because the audience doesn't know what it's supposed to sound like. Very true, however it's something musicians have to specifica
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by dwringer 4y ago
Got the dosage perfect. Pretty close on the xmosmrelin. But the latter half is far too legible still.
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by dwringer 4y ago
I can see your point but I'm not sure it's that straightforward. Let's say you simply took a hat with your kid's favorite characters from tv/movies/books/whatever on slips of paper, drew some, then did the
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by dwringer 4y ago
Honestly when I was a kid I would have been all about the AI-generated JRPG at least 60% over playing the latest Final Fantasy. I couldn't get enough different games at that age, so I'd absolutely enthusiastically dive into both.
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by dwringer 4y ago
One of my undergraduate literature courses was on postcolonial studies, so unsurprisingly we talked about Bhaba quite a bit, and I was confused for a second just like GP. The teacher of that class went on to be dean and also head of the ent
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by dwringer 4y ago
If those frameworks for A/B testing do any statistical analysis or automation I think they are easily classifiable as AI. I wouldn't be surprised if some publications at the top are using much more sophisticated software than that
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by dwringer 4y ago
I assume most major media outlet editors have used AI to help them come up with headlines for many years.
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by dwringer 4y ago
This sums it up perfectly in my mind, the analogy is extremely apt IMHO. As a musician I find it impossible to spontaneously produce melodies, rhythms, etc, that aren't heavily influenced by what I've listened to - perfectly analo
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by dwringer 4y ago
I went through a roller coaster of emotions reading this thread and clicking through all the way to the github repo, where it slowly dawned on me that this was not just layers of satire.
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by dwringer 4y ago
You may be right about that, but I don't think any of the bots on the main page are particuarly good examples; to really get an idea of what capabilities it has I'd recommend creating a bot, playing around a bit with the example d
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by dwringer 4y ago
As I understand, a couple of the lead Google scientists from LaMDA went on to form character.ai which, for me, checks all the boxes that an LLM should. I haven't really seen many people try to compare it with ChatGPT, and I've nev
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by dwringer 4y ago
That's equally shocking to me but I guess it makes sense considering what the industry seems to prioritize. I got an Elektron Model:Cycles on which the only way the pads are even really usable is to set the velocity on them to full (or
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by dwringer 4y ago
I've always kind of wondered if this is working as intended. Occasionally I type the name of an installed program, but the result loads slowly for whatever reason, but in the meantime there's almost instantly a search link which
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by dwringer 4y ago
Heh while this sort of thing can work and is often hilarious, I think it can kind of backfire since this now fills the context with discussion about AI that the AI is more likely to bring up again in spite of the fact that it's been to
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by dwringer 4y ago
Seeing that brings back a lot of nostalgia for the old PC Paintbrush that was once ubiquitous on DOS machines. The images it turned out were really great for the time, and I sometimes miss the aesthetic of those dithering patterns.
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by dwringer 4y ago
Cortana lives forever in the hearts of millions, and Clippy was extremely popular at the level of a D-list celebrity I'd say. Neither for doing actual work, though, so, point well made.
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by dwringer 4y ago
I'd add to that, this is essentially a kind of auto-socratic explorer for a topic. It constantly questions the assumptions of the user, albeit in a rote and very simple prescripted way, and could still lead to insights or new perspecti
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by dwringer 4y ago
This always makes me recall the trailer for the movie Twister in which a large tractor tire smashes through one of the truck's windshields - the scene wasn't actually in the movie, but I was on the edge of my seat any time they we
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by dwringer 4y ago
I think we really need to get on integrating technology like this into a curriculum which does build critical thinking and problem solving skills, since these kids are already inundated with AI generated content and it seems certain to incr
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by dwringer 4y ago
Huh, I was reading this thread thinking I'd found some like-minded individuals. I also have a relatively long torso and slightly shorter legs (only a couple inches either way from average, mind you). I never really thought about that b
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by dwringer 4y ago
Is there a body of evidence that suggests people get more misled and confused after using things like ChatGPT? It seems like a reasonable hypothesis, but my own experience doesn't necessarily support it. I've used the language mod

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