Ai = Bob Dylan + entertainment + refrigeration + ChatGPT + Glenn Gould + Whippings + Crucifixions
2-18-2023
This is one of many favorite clips from the Bob Dylan documentary. This week has been a memorable week of ai discovery for me, at age 73. It’s been good, as it really challenges my thinking. As a dabbler in music, art and media, I may start experimenting with my past projects, recycling them through ai conversion.
But, this clip with Bob, brings to my attention what he said in this interview about people, just wanting to be entertained.
Tv, movies, racing events, boxing matches, whippings, Super Bowls, halftime shows, trials, executions, hangings, crucifixions, aren’t they all entertainment?
If you go to be whipped, aren’t you really being entertained? Quote Bob
Music is usually entertainment, when it’s a public performance. Leonard Bernstein was a great composer, he was also a very entertaining conductor. Glenn Gould dropped out of public performance because he didn’t want to be an entertainer.
The most popular music artist are entertainers. Many of them have questionable talent.
What’s my point ?
I think all of this, ai blabber…. will be dominated by the entertainment value.
I watched a panel discussion on ai, a text question was inserted to ChatGPT…what’s the function-goal-etc of ChatGPT? It’s answer was = The betterment of society”
As various multiple ChatGPT lookalikes are introduced to the world, we’ll have different answers to these kind of moral, political, artistic questions. It’s already obvious the bias of programming. The search engine question answer mechanism from ChatGPT vs other ai, Google will be interesting to follow.
Again, my point is that humans just want to be entertained. Pertaining to music, if they like the beat and it’s simple enough they can relate to it, they’ll like it, ai or not.
The ai music platforms I’ve seen are all based on imitation, there’s nothing new or original. You can pick from hundreds of created genres, BaDaBoom, export there it is.
It’s a 7-11 soda machine, tap your favorite button, coke, sprite, reggae, blues, root beer, jazz, metal. Spotify, but you can call yourself a composer, musician, producer.
On the other hand, text to video and animation is very interesting to me. Augmenting and building upon my original ideas and work is something I will look into.
I was using a primitive text to basic character generator in 2007. I’ve posted a few of those spoken word, (mr negative) videos. For entertainment purposes only.
I think the separation of ai and the evils of ai can be rationalized.
Though I find current music, art and forms of entertainment stupid and low brow. I have zero right to condemn anyone that wants to be creative. Judge not and be not judged.
Absolutely, creative jobs will be lost because of cheap ai production platforms. Jobs will be created because, someone got an idea to utilize this technology.
I heard someone talk about the invention of refrigeration, the inventor didn’t get rich, but the creative inventors, building upon refrigeration did…..
Here’s Bob at his best.