I mean, I could be hit by a bus tomorrow. A memoir type of story-telling is one thing, but I'm more interested in having some sort of application that can parse a Q&A that I made with myself (perhaps based on thousands of questions), while also giving responses that sound like me, have a voice like me, and maybe even an avatar that looks like me. But, locally. Not with a 3rd party service that may shut down in a few years.
Right, but what I mean is the work you put into the data (could be Q&A, journal entries, etc.) will be useable by any local AI model in 5 years. Or can be read by a human. Any coding you do will be out of date.
I'm saying I'd focus on the data first.
That said... suppose your father died and had written 2000 questions and answers about himself. Would you prefer to read what he wrote, or would you prefer to dump it in an AI and have the model do some black box improv version of what he wrote which may or may not resemble the original material very well?
What IDE do you use nowadays if not VS Code? I'm curious because I'm also using an M1 Mac and I've ran through the gamut (Sublime, PyCharm, Atom, etc).
Sublime mostly, not a fully-featured IDE I'd say. For front-end I'm using VS Code, that's only here and there, and that's where the struggle comes from.
Last time I've tried Idea/etc was quite a few years ago. It didn't feel great. But maybe I should force myself into it. Might be better on M1.
I also open regular Visual Studio every few months for C# on Windows, and while it's slow to start, the editor feels really solid, quick, and responsive.
Your example of Guernica: If someone with no knowledge of the meaning behind it, and saw it for the first time... would they really be emotionally blown away? Should a painting have to be explained?
I dunno, I prefer art that is breathtaking at first sight and self explanatory (eg. Starry Night), versus a piece that requires an explanation, like Andy Warhol's soup cans or some abstract modern art that consists of random splashes of paint that somehow makes sense of it all.
My taste is in agreement with yours, but I'm not sure Guernica fits the other examples you gave.
In person it's overwhelming, because it's huge - much too big to hold in your head at once - and every corner of it has something happening in it. Something horrible, or a horrified / horrorific reaction to something horrible. The abstractions and symbolism also create this kind of dreamlike, inarticulable sense of "we'll never get to the bottom of this" - with this being the painting itself, and by extension the experience it depicts.
My guess is that an inhabitant of a future utopian civilization, which had eliminated violence for generations, would have no frame of reference, and no (or an inadequate) emotional response. I don't, however, think it would take any specific knowledge ("in 1937 the Germans..." blah blah blah) to recognize and respond to the painting as depicting experiences and responses common to violence and destruction and war anywhere and any time those happen.
It's just my opinion, but I like visual art that you'd say "wow!" or "beautiful!" when you first look at it.
Not "Hmm... now what's this all about? A soup can?" And then someone has to explain "Oh, this is Andy's fascination with consumer culture and processes of mass production."
Same goes for photography. For instance, that famous National Geographic cover photo of the Afgan girl. I was a kid when I first saw it in the '80s. I didn't learn the history behind it until many years later, but I didn't need that extra layer of description for it to be forever etched in my mind.
I took an art history class at my local community college just on a whim.
I ended up traveling with the professor and a few students to Europe on an 'art history tour' and it was absolutely mind-blowing.
If you are truly interested in art, I highly recommend getting a class on both how to look at but also understand and even critique what you see, as it can really change your worldview for the better.
That sounds awesome. I actually went to Barcelona once (where Picasso studied art at one point). Some cool pieces there to see.
But yea, I'm definitely interested in art. Aside from my day job as a digital artist, I love painting on canvas. Nothing that would win an award, but it's fun: https://i.imgur.com/L4kMhg9.jpeg
It's been a while since I've made music, but my secret sauce has always been Wave's Abbey Road TG mastering chain (not "AI" but it has tons of nice presets for different genres). I need to test this Logic Mastering Assistant out though to see if they play nice together.
With the slew of mounting adapters these days, you can keep using even 60-year-old lenses on most camera bodies.
Like the Helios 44-2 (ca. 1958), still being used today on big features like "The Batman" in a few scenes. They mixed footage from that $500 vintage lens with $50,000 ARRI anamorphic primes.
My Fujifilm X-Pro3 currently has a 1960s-era reflector lens mounted on it. I normally use a 56mm f/1.4 or 23mm f/1.2, but I still have a large collection of vintage Nikon lenses that see lots of use, though I've not owned a Nikon camera in a decade.
Could you imagine the world of shit Facebook/Google/Apple/etc would be in, if someone from their engineering team proved this was possible? People have claimed this NSA-style "listening in" has been happening for years, just to target ads, but there's never been a single shred of code to explain how it would be feasible, especially via an iPhone.
Google's voice assistant can't even understand what I am saying when I am holding the phone up to my face and clearly pronouncing my question that I am asking directly. And then it spends a minute fussing while it compresses and uploads my voice to send across my crappy cell network.
I'm supposed to believe that it's listening to my every word from my pocket on a noisy road with a half-dead battery?
I think people just don't want to accept that:
1. We fall into very basic trends and interests that are very predictable based on age and gender and expressed interests
2. We do so much mindless scrolling and are not aware of all of the random content we see until we get something that triggers a memory.
