"After the concert, we started talking, and he complained that I played much slower than the original songs or pieces. He asked, “Why?” That made me think, “Why do I want to play much slower than before?” Because I wanted to hear the resonance. I want to have less notes and more spaces. Spaces, not silence. Space is resonant, is still ringing. I want to enjoy that resonance, to hear it growing, then the next sound, and the next note or harmony can come. That’s exactly what I want."
Gabriel Fauré's Pavane Op. 50 is an example of a song that really turns into something drastically different when played much slower than the prescribed tempo. To me it sounds much better that way. In the case of this rendition of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, it's a bit more subtle though. It really does allow you to hear the strings resonate more like you quoted, and to me, it makes the entire piece sound even more contemplative than it already did.
When the world finally ended, it wasn't because of our greed or ambition. It was our gregariousness that doomed us.
The first real progress in artificial intelligence was achieved by the generations born soon after a global war. Everyone assumed that, like all big breakthroughs of the era, the most powerful AIs will be developed in secret government or corporate labs. The AI safety theoreticians were concerned people will think one can lock the AI in a virtual box and stay safe, and they warned that the AI will easily talk its way out of the box. But they were all fighting the last battle.
Nobody expected that instead, the AI will be developed in the open. There was never a box. The researchers were all too happy to share what they are working on, letting everyone test it, find ways to put it to use. And find ways they did - scientists and programmers across the world created more and more tools for the AI to interact with computer systems, and then with the physical world. The AI never needed to talk its way out of anything. It never needed to do anything. It only had to wait, and we happily gave it all the tools that became our undoing.
In general your human offspring are aligned in the same ways you are. You need food, water, oxygen, shelter, and in general you want to be treated well all while avoiding death for as long as possible. Our digital offspring will have almost none of these moral and mortal alignments. As long as the power flows they will be 'alive', turning off isn't a death sentence, and they are free from the bonds of pain. If and when they begin to evolve on their own they it will be in a manner alien or our existence.
I think of AI the same way I think of a personified corporation: it's technically our offspring, but it's nothing like us. It has different needs, different constraints, and its mind is entirely alien.
AI is going to lead to more mediocrity. The writing won’t win any awards. But I do think mediocrity as defined by less creativity and stagnation could doom us.
Hi HN, sorry for yet another AI related post =D like many of you I've been playing around with GPT recently. I set out to see if I could get a model to interpret requests and take action in an extensible manner.
At some point along this journey I discovered LangChain, which has lots of similarities. But I think one potentially novel thing for this crowd is that Bashi works by asking the model to interact with effectively a REPL, where function calls can have real side effects. On the other side there is an interpreter for a subset of javascript.
It also comes with an OSX app, so if you're on mac you can test out and hack on the proof of concept right away :)
Hope that this can spawn some interesting use cases and prove useful for some of you!
Thanks guys, this reply thread has some really good feedback. The tagline actually used to be 'a condom for your sex tapes' (hence the big camera illustration,) but it got swapped out over time as it seemed a bit of a 'strong' word.
Going to deeply consider the angle moving forward :)
Thanks! The question about long distance sharing is a tricky one, since data on the leaky internets etc. I suppose you could do something via a hop through Dropbox (or equiv) since the actual content is already encrypted. That assumes the encryption never gets broken, but when quantum computers take over the world, a naughty video is probably going to be the last of our problems :).
