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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” (musictech.com)

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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is little to no human expertise that goes into those systems, it’s all self learned from the data.

The human expertise is in the data. There's no such thing as spontaneous AI generation of expertise from nothing. If you train up an AI on information that doesn't have it, the AI won't learn it. In a very real way, the profit margins of AI-generated content rest wholly on its ability to consume and derive output from source material developed by unpaid experts.

Also, when the data is the output of people with biases, the AI will do the same.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The human expertise is in the data.

There are no art lessons in the training data, just labeled images. How to actually draw the AI has to figure out by itself. Even the labels on the data aren't strictly needed, they are just there so the humans can interact with the AI by text.

Same with AlphaZero, it didn't learn playing Go from humans, it learned that by playing against itself and not only beat humans, but previous versions that were still based on recording human Go games.

That's the bitter lesson of AI research: Throwing data and computation at the problem gives you much better results than human experts.

And we have barely even begun to explore this. What ChatGPT does is still just reciting information from books and websites, it can't interact with the real world to learn by itself. It being based on books written by human experts is not a benefit, but what's holding it back.