It helps me to think of AI as a tool. I used it to make my little circle thingy off to the left, and I'm so non-tech savvy that I can't even remember what that little circle thingy is called!
Once you try a bit of image generating, it becomes apparent that it isn't as easy as it looks. Just because you can pick up a paint brush doesn't mean you can paint, and the same concept applies for image generation.
I think that AI cannot produce what you do; you are way too human for it to replicate :) It can try to replicate it, but the music and tangents would probably seem disjointed, like when image generation tries to handle text. It just generates a letter and symbol salad! If you asked AI to write in the style of Steve Goldberg, would it make up songs or pick existing ones? Hmmmm, I wonder.
AI can edit your articles too; if you'd allow a fellow human to edit your work, why not AI? I haven't actually asked it to edit for me yet, but I keep meaning to try it out.
I definitely want to play around with it a lot more as like you say, it’s a skill and a practice to get to where it becomes a creative tool for your artistic vision.
Ok, greetings from France, home of the Coneheads. Brilliant article. Whatever impact tech is going to have, I have always found the Star Trek (not Star Wars) paradigm useful. Flip phones? Star Trek had them in 1968. Tricorders? We're just about there. Robotic surgery? Check. Holograms driven by AIs? Check. The Japanese already have virtual idols that are 3-D simulations driven on the fly by AIs. Some of these idols have actual human fanbases. My point? Anything we can imagine will happen (time travel and warp drive may be exceptions, but don't be too sure). I've played a little bit with Dall-E. I got a wonderful series of images of Godzilla teaching kindergarten classes.
I barely remember Oasis--I guess they didn't register with me. But I'd love to see what AI can do with Frank Zappa.
Happy Anniversary, Steve! My highest compliment: I chuckled, was entertained, AND educated.....there's not a single thing you wrote about that I knew before!
Well, maybe one....I HAD wondered, recently, just how we're (society) gonna deal with the whole AI/Al upper-case i "I"/lower case "L" thing regarding AI and its drunken uncle, Al. And, when are we gonna create (or put forward) the notion of SRYCTII or "So Real You Can Touch It Intelligence," AI's polar opposite? A debate for another time!
I tried so hard to get into Oasis back in their early day, but failed miserably. My friends were telling me I had to, and despite (because of?) their relentless "sounds like the Beatles" pleas/accusations, I just wasn't hearing anything I needed to hear again! Glad you dig 'em, and I was never aware of the resultant aisis album, nor the Danger Mouse "Grey Album," which I'm stunned Paul and Ringo approved....but, publishing!
Bravo, Steve, on your first year of Earworms & Song Loops, and may Year 2 bring you more fabulous, tuneful and humorous writing, as well as more subscribers who value the same!!
As Lukewarm Skywater once said, "September The Nineteenth Be With You!"
I can't even get past that delicious title....dang you! If it's something I'm beating myself over the noggin for not thinking of it first, consider that the highest compliment!👏👏👏👏And, I've got welts!🤕🩹Remember him....spanking new comic, Red Welts? Played the Catskills in the '40s! I digress.
I'll drop another comment when I've read past the headline! First time in 'Stack history, btw, that a comment has been scribed after just the half-a-dozen-word title!
It helps me to think of AI as a tool. I used it to make my little circle thingy off to the left, and I'm so non-tech savvy that I can't even remember what that little circle thingy is called!
Once you try a bit of image generating, it becomes apparent that it isn't as easy as it looks. Just because you can pick up a paint brush doesn't mean you can paint, and the same concept applies for image generation.
I think that AI cannot produce what you do; you are way too human for it to replicate :) It can try to replicate it, but the music and tangents would probably seem disjointed, like when image generation tries to handle text. It just generates a letter and symbol salad! If you asked AI to write in the style of Steve Goldberg, would it make up songs or pick existing ones? Hmmmm, I wonder.
AI can edit your articles too; if you'd allow a fellow human to edit your work, why not AI? I haven't actually asked it to edit for me yet, but I keep meaning to try it out.
I definitely want to play around with it a lot more as like you say, it’s a skill and a practice to get to where it becomes a creative tool for your artistic vision.
Love the AI pondering in this post. It’s top of mind for me on my day job and in writing
Ok, greetings from France, home of the Coneheads. Brilliant article. Whatever impact tech is going to have, I have always found the Star Trek (not Star Wars) paradigm useful. Flip phones? Star Trek had them in 1968. Tricorders? We're just about there. Robotic surgery? Check. Holograms driven by AIs? Check. The Japanese already have virtual idols that are 3-D simulations driven on the fly by AIs. Some of these idols have actual human fanbases. My point? Anything we can imagine will happen (time travel and warp drive may be exceptions, but don't be too sure). I've played a little bit with Dall-E. I got a wonderful series of images of Godzilla teaching kindergarten classes.
I barely remember Oasis--I guess they didn't register with me. But I'd love to see what AI can do with Frank Zappa.
You should experiment with AI Zappa or maybe it’s ZappAI. I do like the idea that it’s all created by a guy named Al in his parents’ basement.
I really know next to nothing about AI and only wrote about it after I heard the AISIS songs.
Happy Anniversary, Steve! My highest compliment: I chuckled, was entertained, AND educated.....there's not a single thing you wrote about that I knew before!
Well, maybe one....I HAD wondered, recently, just how we're (society) gonna deal with the whole AI/Al upper-case i "I"/lower case "L" thing regarding AI and its drunken uncle, Al. And, when are we gonna create (or put forward) the notion of SRYCTII or "So Real You Can Touch It Intelligence," AI's polar opposite? A debate for another time!
I tried so hard to get into Oasis back in their early day, but failed miserably. My friends were telling me I had to, and despite (because of?) their relentless "sounds like the Beatles" pleas/accusations, I just wasn't hearing anything I needed to hear again! Glad you dig 'em, and I was never aware of the resultant aisis album, nor the Danger Mouse "Grey Album," which I'm stunned Paul and Ringo approved....but, publishing!
Bravo, Steve, on your first year of Earworms & Song Loops, and may Year 2 bring you more fabulous, tuneful and humorous writing, as well as more subscribers who value the same!!
As Lukewarm Skywater once said, "September The Nineteenth Be With You!"
It’s going to be revealed soon that Paul Simon invented artificial intelligence and teased this in his his song “You Can Call Me Al.”
And Lukewarm Skycrawler indeed.
I can't even get past that delicious title....dang you! If it's something I'm beating myself over the noggin for not thinking of it first, consider that the highest compliment!👏👏👏👏And, I've got welts!🤕🩹Remember him....spanking new comic, Red Welts? Played the Catskills in the '40s! I digress.
I'll drop another comment when I've read past the headline! First time in 'Stack history, btw, that a comment has been scribed after just the half-a-dozen-word title!
Ignore the last comment, it was posted by a chatbot which stole my identity
Haha! So was this one!
I’m just boarding a plane, but f*** you outdid yourself with that title. Cant wait to read it when I land
You beat me to it, Charles! I was gonna say the same thing! I'll drop my props above to Steve directly!!