pretty incredible that an AI-generated COUNTRY song has done so well, given that genre's emphasis on authenticity. i guess it invites serious reflection on what 'authenticity' even means.

major whiff of frankenstein's monster about this. poor robot!

sadly philosophy isn't much better. my friend in classics tells me similar things. i wonder if any profession whatsoever (not just academia) has this problem?

I think some of them say that in investing in AI, they're investing in tech that will solve world hunger, climate change etc. However, actual technological solutions to combat eg climate change have existed for decades. Bezos et al don't want to tackle climate change, they just want to get richer.

Foam wasn't spilt in a tray.

This is the perfect example of how empty pro-tech rhetoric is about technology like this. 'Oh, it'll be so much easier to use face recognition, you won't have to remember your passwords.' This is what it's actually for

Reminds me about how wary I used to be of going into Irish pubs in the US, as an Irish person, lest they set upon me and mount my taxidermied corpse on the wall as an instance of Authentic Memorabilia from the Oul' Sod

wow that is weird. like the musical equivalent of students listening to lectures on 2x, to get through them quicker

well, i'm sure he would be well placed to provide informative commentary on the role played by the Illuminati in the heist

what a cool building!

Amazing news, Yuri! Huge congratulations, and richly deserved!

Class!

I'm delighted she won, but the turnout was really low & the competition was laughable. Ireland is still a country where the centre-right rule the waves, the left is too fractious to get anything done, and increasing numbers of mad right-wingers prowl the margins

He'll be asking us to take a turn with him in a 'pretty little wilderness' next

Meanwhile, the protest is the lead story across all international editions of the Guardian. What on earth is going on at the NYT.

right. it's amazing that billions of dollars later, these folks still haven't identified a single thing that LLMs reliably do well, and that the average person actually needs doing.