It was me… but it wasn’t.
I listened again. My scratchy and pushed, but not that bad, singing was now a breathy cool effortless sounding woman.
I’ve been re-recording songs I wrote when I was younger. Like younger. 15 to 22.
For fun, I thought I’d mess around with some handy AI to see how I could maybe use it to breathe some (irony alert) new life into these old songs.
There’s an almost visceral response people have these days to the mention of the letters A and I together.
It either is met with excitement or a mix of fear and anger.
Fair. It’s scary as hell when you think of how fast it’s developing.
But I feel it’s important we take a breath.
Clear our heads.
Take a look at the big picture and make some decisions.
Firstly, the term ‘AI’ is overused. It’s a hyped up buzzword that sells services, products and Sunday morning newsletters.
I like to think of every machine as a form of AI.
Toaster? Put in bread, get toast. How does it know when to stop? AI.
I have no idea how toasters work.
That may be more about me than the toaster though.
All technology is, in a way, AI.
Of course, however, things like ChatGPT start to get scary because it feels like less input is required for startling results.
Like if your toaster grew legs and arms, went out and bought the bread and started complaining about the price of bread.
The more “human” technology becomes, the more scary it seems.
We get a little insecure that someone some thing will be able to do what we can do only better and faster.
You know, like a can opener.
There are obvious red flags that need to be addressed, however they’re more about how some people want to use AI and not AI itself.
Case in point, production studios using AI to study actors appearance, mannerisms and voice and then replicating that at will without paying the actors for each use.
That ain’t right.
But that isn’t an AI problem.
It’s a regulation problem.
AI, like all technological advancements and most cats, is very hard, nigh impossible, to put back in the bag.
You usually end up scratched to hell and with no cats in bags.
We can’t waste time being scared of it or trying to stop it.
We need to regulate how we use it.
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You can listen to the song here
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You make just the kind of girl I thought you might! Totally unimportant information. Did you know that the dial on a toaster is actually a timer? It took me close to 80 years to figure that one out. A little AI might have come in handy on that. I keep getting pressure to get DNA testing done to solve a family mystery. This is a Pandora’s box( bag of cats) I do not want to open. Some cats are better left in the bag methinks. However methinks with just ordinary I no AI involved.