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jamesrcole commented on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp   old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
emptyfile · a month ago
Art without human intent behind it, is simply not art.
jamesrcole · a month ago
And if there are aliens? I'm being serious. Why does it have to be human intent?

And I think it is entirely feasible that at some point -- how far away, I don't know -- AI becomes superior to us in its appreciation of life and living.

jamesrcole commented on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp   old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
KaiMagnus · a month ago
Completely understandable.

I had this opinion for a long time, but only recently was I personally affected, but that made me even more convinced.

I was listening to my new releases playlist on Apple Music and listened to a track that sounded nice, but also a little generic. I don’t know exactly what prompted me to check, but it had all the signs of something fishy going on like generic cover image, the artist page showed a crazy output of singles last year (all the same generic images), unspecific metadata and - to my surprise - I found other Reddit posts about this artist being AI.

Now, a lot of music is generic and goes through so many hands you can hardly call it a personal piece of art. But even then, there’s always some kind of connection.

I guess that’s why I felt betrayed.

I thought AI generated art was wrong before, but I didn’t expect to feel this mix of anger and disappointment.

jamesrcole · a month ago
We're in the very early stages of AI generated art. What will it be like in 10 years time? 20? 50? You might think it won't get much better. I think that's unlikely.
jamesrcole commented on Artificial Computation   cultureandcommunication.o... · Posted by u/vrnvu
kazinator · 3 months ago
> We do not yet know what a computer can't do.

What is ths author talking about?

For instance, we know that a Turing computer cannot calculate whether all such computers will terminate.

It cannot calculate whether two such computers are equivalent (performing an equivalent calculation).

And what exactly "artificial computation", as a class? In contrast to what, and what is the difference?

There is something called the Chuch-Turing Thesis; it is an unproven conjecture which says that any function that can be computed by an 'effective method' can also be computed by a Turing machine. No counterexample has been found.

jamesrcole · 3 months ago
I assume they mean "we don't yet know all the things a computer can't do, only certain limits".
jamesrcole commented on 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds   cbsnews.com/news/peanut-a... · Posted by u/zdw
SideburnsOfDoom · 4 months ago
Peanut Butter is not a very common food, except in the USA.
jamesrcole · 4 months ago
it's common in Australia
jamesrcole commented on Death by AI   davebarry.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/ano-ther
cosmical65 · 7 months ago
> I'd say this isn't just an AI overview thing. It's a Google thing. Google will sometimes show inaccurate information and there is usually no way to correct it.

Well, in this case the inaccurate information is shown because the AI overview is combining information about two different people, rather than the sources being wrong. With traditional search, any webpages would be talking about one of the two people and contain only information about them. Thus, I'd say that this problem is specific to the AI overview.

jamesrcole · 7 months ago
The science fiction author Greg Egan has been "battling" with Google for many years because, even though there are zero photos of him on the internet, Google insists that certain photos are of him. This was all well before Google started using AI. He's written about it here: https://gregegan.net/ESSAYS/GOOGLE/Google.html
jamesrcole commented on Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025   machinelearning.apple.com... · Posted by u/2bit
al_borland · 7 months ago
You asked 2 questions in a system made for 1 question at a time. Split these up and Siri answers them fine. You’re holding it wrong.
jamesrcole · 7 months ago
A tool that can handle more than one question at a time is useful. Modern LLMs handle that with ease. So it's completely reasonable to be critical of that limitation.
jamesrcole commented on Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me   blog.miguelgrinberg.com/p... · Posted by u/nomdep
jazzyjackson · 8 months ago
Human knowledge != Reddit/Twitter/Wikipedia
jamesrcole · 8 months ago
Who said it was? I’m pretty sure they’re trained on a lot more than just those.
jamesrcole commented on Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me   blog.miguelgrinberg.com/p... · Posted by u/nomdep
rainonmoon · 8 months ago
> the corpus of human knowledge.

Goodness this is a dim view on the breadth of human knowledge.

jamesrcole · 8 months ago
what do you object to about it? I don't see an issue with referring to "the corpus of human knowledge". "Corpus" pretty much just means the "collection of".
jamesrcole commented on Good Writing   paulgraham.com/goodwritin... · Posted by u/oli5679
f30e3dfed1c9 · 9 months ago
Gonna leave that as an exercise to the reader. (You could run it through a spell checker, too.)
jamesrcole · 9 months ago
There aren't any spelling errors. If you want to claim otherwise it would be easy for you to show examples.
jamesrcole commented on Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp   lisp-journey.gitlab.io/bl... · Posted by u/Tomte
0xDEAFBEAD · 9 months ago
I'm a little too young to remember Slashdot. It would be interesting to see an informal ethnography of those older discussion sites/Usenet/etc. from people who remember that stuff. Online communities deserve more study.
jamesrcole · 9 months ago
You talk about it as if doesn't exist anymore. If you're not aware, it still exists.

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