It’s fine, I respect your opinion, however, I am not taking part in what I believe is an illusion within a deeply flawed system that humans have built, but it is as yours, my humble opinion.
Nobody in their right mind thinks that technological advances can be actually stopped.
I believe I stated at some point that AI needs regulation. It can’t be stopped.
The danger is the outright dismissal of people who protest against it because of the fear that they won’t be able to pay their mortgage and put food on the table for their families.
There are comments such as calling said people ‘Dinosaurs’, ‘Out of touch’, ‘Out of time’ and they have been told to ‘adapt or die’. This is outright unacceptable.
A lot of people have jumped into this trendy defence of AI without actually understanding what the implications are.
My mindset is that AI has to be tackled and to be heavily regulated. Actors and screenwriters are on strike, CGI and graphic artists are revolting against AI and there are a multitude of lawsuits against companies such as Midjourney for theft of copyrighted material.
Sure, we can all sit back and criticize as long as AI doesn’t affect us. When it does, let’s pick up this chat again buddy…all the best.
The problem lays - as always - somewhere completely else. We can now talk about our societies and how our system (capitalism) even creates such conditions, but that would go far off topic. In the end its not the AI itself, but the system we’re in, which is causing this.
You said “adapt or die” I never said that. Theoretically with all the possibilities AI will give us in the future, people who are not able to adapt (even if humans always had and have to adapt in their life time, and we’re masters in it) can be taken care of.
There is a good chance, that AI can help to create more common good, as long as the system it is used in allows for that.
AI affects us already for years, and we probably all have used it already, most of us everyday in form of certain plugins/features/etc.
Which doesn’t make less true what I said.
The computer opened the producing/recording/mixing world to a lot of new people/musicians/etc. over the years (and therefore created new jobs and incomes), instead of being something only a few people could do back then (mostly because of lack of money and connections).
Basically we all wouldn’t discuss these things here, as most of us wouldn’t even work in music production without Cubase and PCs.
“The computer” wasn’t the problem, it is what the computer can do and in what way. It’s one thing for a machine to replace a live musician because it manages to recreate the sound of a string section, it’s a different thing for a machine to recreate rhythm, and it’s yet a different thing for it to actually compose music using AI. Those are not the same thing, and the fears of the past weren’t of the same magnitude or essence as the fears of AI.
Additionally, like I said, “studio musicians” are virtually all gone in many markets exactly because of machine replacements. So just because people were wrong for a while, in the past doesn’t mean we will be wrong now, because the essence and magnitude is different.
$30 says a clear majority of Cubase users does not literally work in music production.
And that is part of the problem when proponents of AI argue ‘against fears’: The fact that more people will get easier access to music creation doesn’t mean the industry of working artists won’t greatly diminish.
PS: There’s also something to be said for creating music using a machine to do the creation, philosophically speaking… actually already said… in previous posts…
Nah. There were engineering schools before there were computers or ProTools involved, I graduated from mine in 1996, where we had a Trident 24 channel board with 2 ‘brand new’ ADAT machines. Plenty of 4 and 8 tracks were available at the time too for those that actually wanted it and saved for them (Team Tascam here). Anyone wanting to work in the music industry had plenty of places to go intern and get your foot in the door. Back then, we didn’t have everyone and their mother posting on SoundCloud, so you actually had to know what you were doing to even be considered. “Connections” and whatnot aside, it was 100% pro in every sense of the word. Just because you were buddies with Quincy Jones didn’t mean he was calling you to help engineer the next Michael Jackson record when your resume sucked.
To be honest, I’m not into a hair-splitting debate about British politics, but a party that favors Brexit at any cost and holds not a few conservative views in its party platform, is definitely also conservative among other things, even if it may have gotten more progressive over the last years.
Don’t forget that it was the Tory party (under Ted Heath) that got us into the EU in the first place. Also, implementation of “hate” speech laws, transgender laws, easy divorce laws, increasing taxes so that they are the highest overall since WW2 - not conservative.
No more politics from me.
Sorry for not sticking to the topic.
My bad.
Yes, I’m familiar with the concept of AI. AI stands for “Artificial Intelligence,” which refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, problem-solving, understanding natural language, and making decisions. AI systems can range from simple rule-based programs to more complex systems that utilize machine learning and deep learning techniques. The goal of AI is to create machines that can mimic, replicate, or even surpass human cognitive abilities in various domains.
