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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” (musictech.com)
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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Because we often look up to public figures for stuff they are not qualified to comment on.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Can we get a second opinion from Dre?

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Are you saying that Barack Obama and Dr. Dre both are equally unqualified to talk about "AI"? What other similarities do they share that makes you reach for Dr. Dre so quickly? Do you believe that Obama or Dre are incapable of interacting with computers or understanding computer science? Do you think that people who look like "thugs" to a person like you might be capable of learning and performing complex tasks?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If he's an unqualified bystander, then what the fuck are you?

    I'm always surprised that the people with all the answers only share them with thirty other assholes on the Internet.

    I'm confident a 14 year old can write their own AI, maybe even a smart 10 year old.

    Here's instructions for kids:

    https://youtu.be/XJ7HLz9VYz0?si=1QN3fqT03HSMufib

    You think Obama can't wrap his head around a little algebra?

    Why, when speaking intelligently and thoughtfully in the subject, is he so wrong in his assessment, when you, in one lazy sentence, are so right?

    I'm really worried about would-be wise people just throwing in the towel cause they don't know how much better they could be with a little discipline, and settle for being clever here and there.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    Why, when speaking intelligently and thoughtfully in the subject, is he so wrong in his assessment, when you, in one lazy sentence, are so right?

    Obama is employing good old human exceptionalism and moving the goal post. A tried and true method of argumentation that has continued to fail for the last 50+ years when it comes to AI. "AI is good at X, but not Y" becomes "AI is good at X and Y, but not Z" the next year. Focus on a tiny niche that AI hasn't covered yet, while ignoring the pace at which AI is advancing. Wasn't too long ago that people where proclaiming that computers could never be creative. Nowadays that switched to "but it can't beat the human masters". Well, guess what? That did neither hold true for Chess nor Go and it won't work out for Bob Dylan music either. Be prepared for a future where AI is better at everything. It will come and much sooner than people expect.

    It's also worth keeping in mind the quantity of AI generated content. I still hear tons of artists talk as if AI were competing with them on a level playing field. But in the time they finish one image, AI finished thousands or even millions. This is not just about AI replacing the human, but completely shifting how we deal with information in general. Something like ChatGPT isn't interesting because it can write better websites than a human, but because it completely bypasses the need to visit websites in the first place. You ask the AI and the AI delivers the answers. There is no intermediate step where knowledge needs to get dumped into a static website or a book.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    As far as I know, Obama has nothing to do with IT and doesn't have a big interest in it. A lot of people on here are probably more qualified than he is when it comes to these topics simply because they spent a lot of their free time learning about it.

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