Hi Richard, > I gave grok a screenshot of a single movement/single page of a sonata > of my own composition. The written response sounded extremely > convincing - it had detected that the piece was written in Baroque > style for a start - but in detail it was wildly out, it failed to > detect the time signature, declared that the piece was in a different > key from the correct one, failed to detect the systems beyond the first > one and generated LilyPond syntax that doesn't compile, and which, > while it showed insight into quite esoteric aspects of LilyPond, didn't > have any obvious relation to the notes in the piece of music it was > attempting to interpret. > That it sounded extremely convincing could be the worst aspect of AI
That aspect — which is intentionally designed into AI — is definitely one of the terrible aspects of AI (cf. psychosis). > it would be easy for a person to innocently re-post the results of an > enquiry which the AI learning algorithms would find on the internet and > incorporate into future responses. This is already happening in a widespread manner (cf. model collapse). Cheers, Kieren. __________________________________________________ My work day may look different than your work day. Please do not feel obligated to read or respond to this email outside of your normal working hours.
