The scrolling I didn't find too off putting, but that floating nav bar is beyond awful; I had to Inspect -> Delete Element to be able to read the article.
Perhaps because "A.I." doesn't understand anything, it just makes plausible output based on its training data. LLM is a much better term, because intelligence has connotations of understanding, whereas model does not.
> Making music is very easy. Making music people want to listen to is hard, mind-bogglingly so.
Agreed, although making music is "easy" once you've put in the hours to learn how to make music, and getting to somewhat professional standards requires a lot of time investment.
This reduces that to zero.
The point where it becomes a "problem" is the people abusing it to pump out hundreds (or dare I say thousands) of bullshit filler "music" to get some stream income at the expense of people who have put in the effort.
Technical skill has very, very little to do with the emotional impact of music.
One of the most famous mantras in punk music was "this is a chord, this is another, now make a band"[1]. "Imagine" by John Lennon is a song written using the simplest scale and chord progressions, using a very low 4/4 tempo.
The hard part is not knowing the biggest amount of chords, it's knowing what not to use to carry your emotions.
Also, the "time investment" is the music. Once the final waveform hits the tape/DAW/recorder it's not art anymore, it's publishing.
And for most artists "learn to make music" is usually the fun part. Complicated and frustrating sometimes, but rewarding. For a lot of them, the "now play it in front of other people" part is the truly annoying one, frightening in some occasions.
Still suffers the same problem that all Voice Recognition seems to suffer; cannot reliably detect that the speaker has finished speaking.
This was almost worse though because it did feel like a rude person just interrupting instead of a dumb computer not being able to pick up normal social cues around when the person they're listening to has finished.
It's even hard to detect when humans stopped talking when talking to human while having high latency especially at the beginning of the call when you testing how big latency it is.
I think they need to implement the statistical bias where the longer a person talks, the less likely they are going to be stopping at any specific part of their speech. Sorta like the rising sun problem[0]
I remember eating them as a young child and not hating them, but something changed and by the time I started college even the smell was nauseating to me. It's not as extreme a reaction as it used to be, but my stomach will still start turning after smelling them for a few minutes.
You sound like someone who doesn't have young children who cross a road where the road users should be respecting the speed limit set deliberately low because it's right in front of an elementary school, but instead a significant proportion of them are Michael Schumacher wannabes who need to drive everywhere at 60km/h.
No need to have children. It’s the same crap in France and I have to be very careful not to get killed when I’m driving myself. These morons don’t care about kids but they don’t care about other drivers either.
I’m a big privacy advocate but when you are handling a killing machine on a public road, there is no privacy IMHO.
I think that's simplifying things too much: as a driver, there are also pedestrians who will jump out into a street without so much as looking where there is no crosswalk; there are also drivers who will drive 20km/h in a 50km/h zone, and you have no idea what's going on except that you are likely to hit 5 red traffic lights which are designed to be a "green wave" and make a 30 second drive through one street into a 5 minute one, and resulting in more gas usage and more pollution.
And yes, this type of driving will produce annoyed drivers that "drive crazy", and I don't accept that this is just their fault.
Mostly, these same drivers doing 20km/h will not even stop for pedestrians on a crosswalk — slowness does not equal attention and safe driving!
Traffic, in essence, is a collaborative effort that requires all participants to be empathetical to other participants — as such, we need to be most mindful of the "weakest" participants like pedestrians (especially kids, who can also be very inattentive), cyclists, motorcycles but also of other car drivers — if we care about each others' experience, we'll reduce the risk for everyone involved, while getting everyone where they want to go in a timely and efficient manner — and that is the goal!
Yes it requires collective empathy. There was a time when we never required the nanny state to constantly watch over us. A sign of a high functioning, free and unified society is that you shouldn't need be forced by the hand of the law to conform to the lowest common denominator.
> I ended up disabling github copilot because it was just "auto-complete on steroids" at best
this is good enough sell for me, and it's like sub 1-in-50 that it's "auto-complete on mushrooms" (again my experience, YMMV).
An awful lot of the time, my day to day work involves writing one piece of code and then copy-pasting it changing a few variable names. Even if I factor out the code into a method, I've still got to call that method with the different names. CoPilot takes care of that drudgery and saves me countless minutes per day. It therefore pays for itself.
I also use ChatGPT every time I need some BASH script written to automate a boring process. I could spend 20-30 minutes searching for all the commands and arguments I would need, another 10 minutes typing in the script, another 10-20 minutes debugging my inevitable mistakes. Or I make sure to describe my requirements exactly (5-10 minutes), spend 5 minutes reviewing the output, iterate if necessary (usually because I wasn't clear enough in the instructions).
3-5x speed up for free. Who's not going to take that win?
Probably significantly since it explicitly tells you to disable any blue light filters on your screen.
I think the website needs to be more explicit that this is trying to gather data and that deviating from the test parameters will skew the results.
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