There's a fair number of ai generated 1.5 hour or so collections of blues songs on YouTube, and some are actually pretty decent. I suspect the human in the loop guides the lyrics to keep them sensible and the voice from being too muddled, as there's plenty of lower quality stuff too. Same goes for a variety of instrumental stuff.
I hate it, and I hate liking some of it, as it is easier to find than quality human produced stuff in some styles and I'd prefer to support analog over digital creation.
With that said, there's a blues AI cover of gangsta's Paradise that is pretty sweet played at 90% speed. Again, I wish it was human performed, and I'm continuously conflicted about it.
Why spend more money just to trawl through BS contributions? Cutting off the nonsense would be both cheaper and have the same result.
More funding for more development of open source is a good thing, but more money to ease the burden imposed by an ever rising tide of slop is not a solution.
> I think we all jumped on the AI mothership with our eyes closed
Oh no, there's plenty of us willing to say we told you so.
What's more interesting to me is what it's going to look like if big companies start removing "AI usage" from their performance metrics and cease compelling us to use it. More than anything else, that's been the dumbest thing to happen with this whole craze.
That was my thinking... even for specialists, I can generally get into a new one within a few weeks.
My SO is on state Medicaid (cancer) and does experience the kinds of waits mentioned above... so I guess it does follow similarly for government/state backed healthcare, where I'm mostly out of pocket.
But even when I had relatively typical coverage, I didn't have issues getting into a doctor more often than not. I think getting my sleep study was the longest wait I had for anything, they were months backed up with appointments... but my kidney and retina specialists were somewhat easy to get started with.
> One of the few reliable barometers of an organisation (or their products) is the wtf/day exclaimed by new hires.
Eh, I don't think this is exactly as reliable as you'd expect.
My previous job had a fairly straight forward code base but had fairly poor reliability for the few customers we had, and the WTF portions usually weren't the ones that caused downtime.
On the other hand, I'm currently working on a legacy system with daily WTFs from pretty much everyone, with a greater degree of complexity in a number of places, and yet we get fewer bug reports and at least an order of magnitude if not two more daily users.
With all of that said... I don't think I've used any of Microsoft's new software in years and thought to myself "this feels like it was well made."
The rapid decay of WTF/day over time applies to both new employees and new customers.
> currently working on a legacy system
"Legacy" is the magic word here! Those customers are pissed, trust me, but they've long ago given up trying to do anything about it. That's why you don't hear about it. Not because there are no bugs, but because nobody can be bothered to submit bug reports after learning long ago that doing so is futile.
I once read a paper claiming that for every major software incident (crash, data loss, outage, etc...) between only one in a thousand to one in ten thousand will be formally reported up to an engineer capable of fixing the issue.
I refused to believe that metric until I started collecting crash reports (and other stats) automatically on a legacy system and discovered to my horror that it was crashing multiple times per user per day, and required on average a backup restore once a week or so per user due to data corruption! We got about one support call per 4,500 such incidents.
The customers aren't pissed, we're doing demos to new departments and lining up customizations and expansion as quickly as we can. We're growing faster than ever within our largest customer.
I also didn't say there are no bugs or complaints, I said the system is more stable. But yes, there are fewer bugs and complaints, especially on the critical features.
I didn't use the word legacy to mean abandoned, just that it's been around a long time, we're maintaining it while also building newer features in newer tech, as opposed to my previous company which was a green field startup.
By that question I mean: Do you think there are fewer bugs because you hear fewer complaints from humans, or because you have a no-humans-involved mechanism for objectively evaluating the rate of bugs?
Even if you have a mechanical method for collecting bug reports, crash logs, or whatever, that can still obscure the true quality of the codebase.
One such example that I keep thinking about was the computer game Path of Exile. It has "super fans" that all have 10,000 hours of playtime that will swear up and down that it is one of the best games ever. When I first played it, I found so many little bugs and issues that I had more fun jotting them down than actually playing the game! I collected pages and pages of bullet points. None were crash bugs that would have been logged, and every one was the type of thing that players would eventually learn to work around by avoiding scenarios that caused the issue. I.e.: "Don't click to fast after going through a door because your orientation will be random on the other side, so you might be sent back to where you came from", that kind of thing.
Honestly and objectively measuring the quality of a software application (or any product) is hard.
> since you couldn’t reliably stop it the computer itself and new teams with new computers come in.
Wifi connection settings in Windows have a "metered connection" setting, which disables automatically downloading updates. I don't recall exactly when this was introduced, but I had to use it for a year while I was stuck on satellite internet. You can even set data caps and such.
Of course, it's always off by default, and I have no idea if there's any way to provision the connection via enterprise admin to default to on for a particular network (I would assume not) so you'd be stuck hoping everyone that comes in does the right thing.
So, does this ban all news related to politicians?
Newspapers and television programs sell time and space via advertisements, and there is more in the world than could conceivably fit.
Therefore, every inclusion is an editorial decision. Any positive or negative opinion, any review of a biography or book about a politician, every interview is now a contribution in kind- after all, the time and space have value, which are included in this law as "anything of value".
Basically, this is literally what the Citizens United decision boiled down to- a blatant infringement on free speech. People HATE citizens United because it lets companies donate money, but this is the flip side to the equation.
"(b) The term does not include the distribution of bona fide news, commentary, or editorial content unless the publishing entity is owned or controlled by a political party, a political committee, or a candidate".
What’s “bona fide news?” Does it include the World Socialist Web Site? MS NOW? Newsmax? Russia Today?
Generally it’s not advisable for the government to have the power to ban political communication and decide on a case-by-case basis what communication falls into the banned classes.
We're in the process of building new gigawatt datacenters for the sole purpose of doing this stuff. If we end up not needing them, there's gonna be a whole lot of capacity sitting around soaking up ongoing maintenance costs.
For ex. of the five new data centers being planned in Wisconsin, the two I know of that have public energy consumption estimates will need more electricity than all of the residential electric usage in Wisconsin combined at 3.9 gigawatts.
All I know is I never want to hear another person talk about how my personal electrical usage is excessive after all the power usage needed for these data centers. My house should be able to feel comfortable in the summer if we're building these many data centers.
I hate it, and I hate liking some of it, as it is easier to find than quality human produced stuff in some styles and I'd prefer to support analog over digital creation.
With that said, there's a blues AI cover of gangsta's Paradise that is pretty sweet played at 90% speed. Again, I wish it was human performed, and I'm continuously conflicted about it.
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