I helped her access the video from the presentation, and it brought her to tears. Now, she can play guitar, and the AI and her can write songs and sing them together.
This is a big day in the lives of a lot of people whom aren't normally part of the conversation. As of today, they are.
Eventually it would be better for these models to run locally from a security point if view, but this is a great first step.
And here are some ideas I put together around 2010 on how to deal with the socio-economic fallout from AI and other advanced technology: https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html "This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."
And a related YouTube video: "The Richest Man in the World: A parable about structural unemployment and a basic income" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14bAe6AzhA "A parable about robotics, abundance, technological change, unemployment, happiness, and a basic income."
My sig is about the deeper issue here though: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."
Technology has leapfrogged nature and our consumption patterns have not caught up to modern abundance. Scott Galloway recently mentioned this in his OMR speech and speculated that GLP1 drugs (which actually help addiction) will assist in bringing our biological impulses more inline with current reality.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Het-geheim-verdwenen-mysterie-Dutch/d...
I don't need to imagine that, I've had it for about 8 years. It's OK.
> help you grocery shop without an assistant
Isn't this something you learn as a child? Is that a thing we need automated?
