drchewbacca

There's a movie called "Unrest" which, in part, covers Dr Davis and his son I think. I thought it was a pretty interesting movie, it's on Netflix in the UK, not sure about elsewhere.

This is good advice ... if you are a house.

This article would have been much more convincing if the author had done some testing of their actual level in French rather than just talking about how insecure they feel.

It's possible the author's language is poor, it's also possible it's very good but they see "great" as normal and so discount what they know due to imposter syndrome.

I've heard a lot of people apologise for their English after speaking flawlessly.

You're right measuring the skill of a composer is hard, however as you say listener ratings and sales/streams would be a pretty good metric. Even for songs in the top 100 charts how high can an AI get? If all the top 10 songs were written by an AI that would be pretty convincing it was super human I think.

On the issue of generalising alpha go learned go by watching human played games and by playing against itself and is now better than any human. So it's not true that a system is limited only to the skill of the examples it's shown, it's possible to design something which can surpass the examples it learned from.

One thing with it is the distance from getting a computer to compose anything to getting it to compose close to human level could be 90% of the distance to getting it to compose at a super human level.

Even several months before Alpha Go beat Lee Sedol there were people saying the AI could be good but never great. Now everyone admits it's super human.

I agree that getting really texture and subtlety in the work is really hard. However a really good system has the possibility to be better than any human has ever been, and IMO that's super exciting.

Even when you know his name finding him isn't easy.

I find it surprising that the US is seen as strongly free market when things like this crop up all over the place.

Here's a video of someone failing to get pricing in advance for a medical procedure and an article about how many simple tasks need licences.

The fact that a lot of areas only have 1 broadband provider blows my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tct38KwROdw

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/02/17/america-should-...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/50-mi...

This guy seems to be way ahead of MIT on this one. He moved a barn (which wasn't a specially 3D printed shape) 300 ft on his own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7q20VzwVs