Have you all tried using Github’s Co-pilot for SuperCollider? It works surprisingly well (and also suggests a lot of mistakes, but you just need to learn how to work with it). I use it extensively now and it is a huge help for writing classes and unit tests for example.
Are you using this in neovim? I guess we could use it in vs code as well?
Sam
Yeah I am running the vim plugin 
I have the impression that the discussion about this new technological phase has been more rational and less based on emotions and fear. Finally, we will discover that the issue is not in the technology itself, but in the social system that encompasses its use.
ChatGPT has been called a mansplaining machine (in that it writes with a tone of absolute confidence, even when the contents are largely fabricated). I wish I had thought of that, but I didn’t (I’m stealing it from somewhere). Some LLMs have also famously become erratic when questioned too much, which also kinda fits the profile 
Yeah, it’s gone from "omg, it can do that? 
" to "omg it’s doing that again 
"
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One aspect is that AI, neural network frameworks require computational power to “train their models” that individuals rarely have. in other words, the technology would end up being exclusive to capitalist monopolies. But this is not the only possible future, and people are aware of that.
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This is very funny. Although I guess it’s Botsplaining.
I find it hard to evaluate what exactly has happened over the last year. The language is so washy – like what does AGI or super-intelligence even mean, and how do you measure that? How much of this is our innate desire to project agency, intelligence, and even morality onto our surrounding. It’s sort of animist, or even reminiscent of Roman Gods. Then again, there seems to be some really impressive stuff, like ML being used to decode animal calls and possibly open up the possibility of interspecies communication.
I wish there was more sober and informed writing on this. Perhaps I´m looking in the wrong places. Grady Booch seems quite good, and Stephen Diehl links to some good anti-hype thinkers.
if SA it is (which I agree with) then ML should be MR (machine regressing) as they are not learning just extracting patterns.
I vote for botsplaining
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there are some great thinking going on, just not in the news. I can send a few items I was sent as part of the (fantastic) MusAI project - it is academic but ethics of technology will always be quite niche and deep. we just need to make sure it is talked and thought about by a wider group of people so democracy can work its magic (the ever optimist talking here )
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Hi Tremblap,
I would be delighted if you send some of that on to me, thank you. Yes, the news is ill-equipped for this moment. The combination of a desire of sensationalism/clicks combined with few journalists having technical backgrounds seems to make for a mystification of the technology, and doomer/utopia narratives becoming predominant.
OK some fun articles, not all without problems, but offering interesting starting points
Why AI is Harder Than We Think - Melanie Mitchell
How AI Fails Us - Divya Siddarth et al
and more right on the ChatGPT:
Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks - Tomer D. Ullman
Their combined lit review is quite something
On a more techno-optimist angle, I love the fantastic Ollie Bown’s view (yes, the half of the amazing IDM Icarus) in the open access book he has written - I’m yet to read it but heard him talk (and spoken to him about it) extensively - I disagree with some of it but it is a great framework to think about it all.
Beyond the creative speacies - Oliver Bown
And on the more critical side Bob Sturm’s work on style recognition is amazing. Have a taster here
and finally, some artists have replied to this media with more or less naive views on it, including yours truly
and here by others
and finally, finally for real, the project that got me thinking a lot deeper (after FluCoMa’s team) is
I hope this helps a bit?
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Wow, that’s hugely helpful. Thank you very much tremblap, I’ve got my reading cut out for me now!
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