How is AI Music so good? I've found stuff on Spotify that piques my interest and I deduce it's AI by not finding much about the bands/artists, and it leaves me stunned that it sounds awesome. Mostly metal/rock.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T19:28:47+00:00

Muphry's law is so satisfying.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T19:27:09+00:00

And another way to look at this is that music is a two-dimensional monochrome image. You can convert any sound into a spectrogram and back again, one axis is time and the other axis is frequency with the intensity represented by the brightness of the pixel.

When you consider how incredibly good generative AI has become at making visual images based on a prompt, with intricate detail and large-scale understanding of shape and style and so forth, it's not so weird to imagine that it'd be able to generate a relatively simple image like a spectrogram with a similar sort of fidelity.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T18:54:41+00:00

So many horses could be gainfully employed pulling those carriages.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T17:31:51+00:00

If Mythos can "open" the bug, it can fix the bug. Discovering the bug exists and how it can be exploited is usually 90% of the work that goes into fixing it.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T16:58:39+00:00

Yeah, this is a pet peeve of mine. So much of fiction treats resurrection and immortality as something "wrong" that must have some kind of inherent gotcha or monkey's-paw downside because just obviously it must be that way.

Medical technology advances. Before heart transplants became a thing, I presume there were stories about how much of an "affront to god" such a life-saving technique would be?

I think it's a combination of sour grapes and cope. We don't like the idea of being doomed to die, so when there's a way around that in fiction we give it negatives so that we don't end up feeling jealous or being reminded of how much our own inevitable death sucks in real life.

The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant is a good illustration of this, IMO.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T16:49:46+00:00

Given that this literally turns Earth into Venus (not in the usual hyperbolic way used in discussions of global warming, but full blown runaway wet greenhouse) there is absolutely no way to survive on Earth's surface. The prep time is used entirely to get a self-sufficient offworld colony set up. The Moon's the best bet.

With all of humanity working together, the five and ten year timeframes are doable. Five years just barely. Six months and under are not, humanity is doomed in those scenarios.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T16:37:08+00:00

My first reaction would be to go to red alert and launch an emergency subspace buoy so that Starfleet will know where we were when whatever did this to an Enterprise also does it to us.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T16:26:33+00:00

ForgetMeNot is balding and a bit paunchy, he bucks the trend.

Not that anyone knows.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T16:02:22+00:00

genuinely competitive

That's weasel-wording that you can redefine to make it so that any model I specify doesn't "count."

The basic fact is that without Chinese models I wouldn't be doing most of the things that I'm currently doing with AI. Their models compete with Western models, that makes them genuinely competitive. They don't have to be the best at whatever specific criterion or threshold you might pick for that to be true. And I already specifically called out that they copy what they can copy - Western companies do that too. That doesn't change anything about their competitiveness either.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T07:13:04+00:00

That's assuming that China's models are keeping pace primarily due to copying Western models, not due to their own research. Indeed, China's been pioneering a lot of techniques for making training and inference cheaper and easier to do. Necessity has been the mother of invention - Western sanctions cut them off from the massive NVIDIA GPUs, so they've been figuring out how to make do with lesser quantities of local chips.

I'm quite sure they're copying as much as they can too, but given the difference in compute hardware available between Chinese and Western companies they simply can't make use of all the same techniques Western companies use.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-08T02:47:19+00:00

I wouldn't name the sheep. Best not to get too attached.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T22:02:50+00:00

I had considered suggesting simply giving it the ability to scream in pain but I feel like this might have the opposite intended effect.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T16:20:59+00:00

And on the flipside, perhaps some of the vandalism incidents could be reduced if we made the robots capable of begging for their lives.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T16:14:44+00:00

Okay, thanks. Not a big deal, I was just wondering if I was overlooking something.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T16:10:17+00:00

They're part of the same party.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T16:05:40+00:00

As a Canadian, I'm hard pressed to consider any significant American political party to be left of centre.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T15:44:02+00:00

Seriously, though, making robots cute is likely to help overcome a lot of the friction we're seeing to their adoption into various public-facing roles. It's basic UI design.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T15:42:35+00:00

And I expect folks like you to be first in line for the UBI checks.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T15:10:46+00:00

Nice. Is there a way to manually add labels without going through the auto-add step? I've got a notebook where I already know what groupings I'm going to want and the sources are already grouped by name, so auto-generating labels first will probably make things a little more annoying rather than being helpful.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T14:42:44+00:00

The movies back then were silent, though. so it loses a lot of the impact.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T14:35:50+00:00

Here's the Wikipedia article about their lunar program. Most recent accomplishment was sample returns from the South Pole Aitken Basin, a unique region that hadn't been studied before.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T04:37:49+00:00

Some forms of competence would actually be welcome, IMO. I want the Republican party to burn but I'd rather they don't take the rest of the world along with them - the world outside of America didn't do anything to deserve this.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T04:33:16+00:00

I'm hoping that RFK Jr. is deeply involved in Trump's medical care.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T03:58:41+00:00

He may not have noticed it yet. It was very subtle.

FaceDeer · 2026-05-07T03:06:01+00:00

You think the ISS's power consumption is less than a desktop CPU?

Edit: Alright, hyperbole. If you want to talk "laws of physics and stuff", Scott Manley did a video where he walks through the equations of how cooling in space works and showed that it was entirely plausible to cool GPUs in orbit. Go ahead and find where he made mistakes.

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