hierophantical (u/hierophantical)

hierophantical commented on Stable Audio Open stability.ai/news/introdu... · Posted by u/davidbarker

It produces decent audio, but something unpleasant about its high frequencies. And no voices, it doesn't seem to talk or sing.

Udio, so far, is undefeated.

And ElevenLabs' music demos were very very impressive, but it's still not released.

hierophantical · a year ago

None of these are impressive in the least. Anything I have heard from Udio is basically trash. It is the AI art equivalent of synthetic cats and pretty face shots. Who cares.

What is ultimately going to be undefeated is training your own model.

hierophantical commented on No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making strides arstechnica.com/ai/2024/0... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

nico · a year ago

Why are you assuming that people want to stop understanding the AI models?

If anything, AI researchers are digging deeper into the models too

And people in physics are starting to use AI tools to model physical phenomena

I think that it’s a never ending task to understand all the black boxes. Definitely not possible by a single person. But also at some level you get to circular references. There is no fixed point in the universe, there is no point 0 or origin that we can find. Everything is relative to something else

hierophantical · a year ago

I mean how can we ever trust a microscope when the human eye can not see at that level of magnification?

What if the hammer gets angry and starts hitting us in the head? How can you not see the danger in getting hit in the head by a hammer?

This is all just short term noise and no one will ask these stupid questions soon enough. In the meantime, it makes for good theater on podcasts.

hierophantical commented on Psychedelics are challenging the standard of randomized controlled trials theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/chapulin

cheeseomlit · a year ago

We communicate with other people and entities in dreams as well, and they seem completely convincing during the experience. While its not impossible for the self-replicating machine elves from the 5th dimension to actually exist, I think its more likely they're reflections of our psyche or something like that

hierophantical · a year ago

People don't see self-replicating machine elves if they have no idea who Terence McKenna is.

Ultimately, these are easily programmed experiences by people good at creating mythology. The more pseudoscientific one makes the mythology the better too of course or at least some loose connection to pseudoscience.

If we just say elves then it is obviously ridiculous. Self-replicating machines sounds STEM enough.

That was McKenna's brilliant con-artistry. Painting a STEM varnish on centuries old bullshit that no one would have bothered reading about otherwise.

hierophantical commented on Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle aisnakeoil.com/p/scientis... · Posted by u/randomwalker

alvah · a year ago

To be extra fair, "domain experts" in some areas have had a bad few years; there are a couple of fields I can think of off the top of my head where the "experts" wheeled out to advise/scare the public are clearly more influenced by politics (or saving their own skin) than science. Replacing trust in experts with trust in LLMs is obviously dumb, but who is Joe Sixpack supposed to turn to?

hierophantical · a year ago

"domain experts" are often totally wrong and there is nothing new about this.

When our state of knowledge of the world changes , "domain experts" have the most to lose and our state of knowledge of the world is constantly changing.

Most domains also don't have the exactness of a programming language so are exposed to the same human processes as displayed in a middle school popularity contest.

The whole concept of the "domain expert" is really a modern superstition. An especially powerful superstition because it is the superstition of those who believe themselves beyond superstition.

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