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From us it's this time:
Artificial Intelligence: On the Way to the First Generated Hit
In the future, AIs will compose songs according to text input. Riffusion and MusicLM show the current research status, but the music lacks a bit of pep.
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Good morning and happy #Newstodon day! Since @heiseonline kicked off the day with a fascinating story on #ArtificialIntelligence, we'll continue the theme with this fascinating story on robotic prayer.
Robots are performing Hindu rituals to care for the gods -- perfectly each times. They can do it where there's a shortage of priests. But is it right?
https://theconversation.com/robots-are-performing-hindu-rituals-some-devotees-fear-theyll-replace-worshippers-197504
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@TheConversationUS The gods demand these rituals, but care not about who performs them? If the robot is the one doing the practice, is the robot the one that will achieve enlightenment or afterlife? This is not a place I expected to see automation take over.
“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
@jaddy @sigsegv What I find interesting here is that it’s largely not about belief. You spin the prayer wheel, it releases the prayers, even if you don’t believe. So why not have the not do it faster than you ever could?
The article does get into whether the intent and belief of the programmer matter or not.
@TheConversationUS @e_urq @heiseonline @TexasObserver @damemagazine @TucsonSentinel @msfreepress @thexylom @themarkup @STAT @gbhnews @ProPublica I’m remembering a short story in which all the armies of the world were arrayed against the forces of evil for Armageddon. Religious leaders argued that they should be involved, but the generals said they knew war better. They threw their best robot missiles, robot tanks, robot planes, and robot fighters at the enemy. When the smoke cleared, the ground was littered with the wreckage of millions of robots, but the devil had been defeated. The heavens opened, the angels descended, God’s light reached down to the battlefield, and the robots all rose into the sky, whole again, and the heavens closed; with the humans left alone on earth.
@TheConversationUS @heiseonline @TexasObserver @damemagazine @TucsonSentinel @msfreepress @thexylom @themarkup @STAT @gbhnews @ProPublica This is the logical extension of prayer wheels.
@bhawthorne @TheConversationUS @heiseonline @damemagazine @TucsonSentinel @msfreepress @thexylom @themarkup @STAT @gbhnews @ProPublica I am pretty sure at least one science fiction writer (maybe many) predicted something like this
@TexasObserver @TheConversationUS @heiseonline @damemagazine @TucsonSentinel @msfreepress @thexylom @themarkup @STAT @gbhnews @ProPublica Yup. See the reference elsewhere in the thread to the Electric Monk.