It doesn't, but you'll believe it is because that's what you asked for. It's not like you have a solid test for what it is yourself
Thomas explained what he means in a sibling comment an hour before yours.
I would probably think about doing a little workspace sharing and ask for more live musicians to come in and do some serious woodshedding themselves ;)
I know some that are getting that buzz-saw sound out of their instruments fairly repetitively already, and there's no place to go but up :)
To be fair, they’re also easy (trivial, even) without one. It’s not like “play more music like this” is something we ever needed AI for.
Borderline off-topic, but I love how fast the goal post moves. A decade or two ago "Similar music to this" was definitively in the realm of AI/ML, now it's some full-stack dev's afternoon to implement.
Of course not, but just some years ago, when people talked about "AI" in ML circles, they weren't exclusively talking about LLMs, which you seemed to have automatically and exclusively associated "AI" with. It's much larger than just LLMs, although the ecosystem is flooded with LLMs at the moment. I thought this very movement, where tons of people, not just you, have this "AI === LLMs" association, when again, it used to not be so.
That attitude is exactly why online (and offline) discourse has gone in the gutter. Instead of addressing what was said and understanding nuance, you instead took the comment, labeled it in a preconceived box in your head, then attacked that group instead of engaging in good faith with the person you were talking to.
And by the way, I’m very much aware of the difference between AI and LLM, but whether you like it or not the terms are conflated today and being pedantic about it is a losing battle. In this case it was patently obvious what was meant. You’re (presumably) not an automaton and are thus (presumably) capable of understanding the difference, meaning you are definitely able to choose to steel man instead of straw manning.
What on earth are you on about?
Take a breath, I'm not arguing for/against anything at all, I conceded myself it's "borderline off-topic", you don't have to take it as I'm trying to challenge anyone's worldview or anything, it's basically an offhand observation.
> man instead of straw manning.
You may not actually understand what a "straw man" is, as I haven't even attempted to refute or engage in any argumentation at all.
Anyway, clearly a fruitless conversation to continue, I'm not sure who you're arguing against/for here, I didn't intended to even try to argue against/for anything here, so I'm just gonna peace out. Hope you enjoy the rest of your Saturday as much as I've enjoyed mine so far!
Here’s a silly example: Imagine you had made a comment about something different on a different thread. Then someone responds to you by saying “borderline off-topic, but I find some comments on HN about this subject to be really stupid”. Would you not be justified in thinking that the comment responding to yours was a response to you?
Maybe you really did mean nothing by it, but are you able to understand how every choice you made contradicts that, even if inadvertently?
> Anyway, clearly a fruitless conversation to continue
Are you also able to understand how this type of high-ground dismissal makes it worse?
> Hope you enjoy the rest of your Saturday
Thank you. You too. Genuinely.
I have a bunch of skills Ive created for random work that have “predefined interfaces” like a single url. I very frequently trigger these skills with freetext prompts instead and get all the intelligence of the skill while bypassing what it was actually designed for. This aspect of malleable API is extremely powerful and is probably the only reason I keep AI in the loop of some of my custom software vs removing it and avoiding the cost/nondeterminism.
It’d be like eating and having an alien with no concept of food or taste staring at how much your facial muscles change and making notes. Then recommending places to you based on the other people they’ve been studying.
> how is AI (or a human for that matter) supposed to know what “woodworking-appropriate music is”?
Well someone is going to be concentrating, but it’s a long period, with loud activity. maybe you’d guess at decently active music, not relying on careful complex listening, probably fairly steady rather than sudden dramatic changes.
Maybe it could save previous playlists and what you’ve said about them, or ask questions like “so like, really calm or techno or what?”. Adding just a bit of common sense makes an enormous difference with this kind of thing.
(Actually I totally do want to allocate lots of time curating exactly what I'm going to listen to, but laying out playlists is its own hobby, and woodworking time is for making wood shoot across my basement when I pinch the saw blade, not for making mixtapes.)
“If I Had a Hammer”
“Sledgehammer”—Peter Gabriel
Anything by The Carpenters
Any works by Woody Guthrie
Hymns about Jesus and St. Joseph
Lumber Capital Log Yard
Anything by Nine Inch Nails
Anything by the Sandpipers
“Turn, Turn, Turn”
“Dust in the Wind” by Kansas
Anything by Dusty Springfield
Anything by MC Hammer
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, “Saw” horror franchise
Anything by Level 42
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=sTUKhRXXiylavwIm
Anything by 1-hit wonder The Nails and/or powerviolence band NAILS
“Morning Wood” by Beavis & Butt-Head
“The Lumberjack Song” by Monty Python
and we had autocomplete for coding (IntelliSense), why do we need to get LLM involved?
LLMs are at a whole different level than recommender algorithms
tried it with GPT:
> A steady mix of instrumental grooves, classic rock, and bluegrass—styles commonly favored in woodshops.
Green Onions - Booker T. & the M.G.’s
Up Around the Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jessica - The Allman Brothers Band
Long Train Runnin - The Doobie Brothers
Honey on My Tongue - Steep Canyon Rangers