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@Dr-Mark
In a similar vein but not necessarily my opinion unless we are discussing my sister:

What do you call a woman without an A..hole?
“Divorced”.

@j-jericho said in The 15 Best Miles Davis Quotes:

The one I remember the most is: "My daddy's rich, my mama's good lookin', I've never had a bad day in my life, and I can still play the blues."

Why don’t we assign “16” to that quote.

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@administrator said in Bots are getting scary:

@ssmith1226 said in Bots are getting scary:

A recent headline:
“AI bot tweets out plan to ‘eliminate’ humanity in order to save Earth”
Link:
https://bgr.com/science/ai-bot-tweets-plan-to-eliminate-humanity-in-order-to-save-earth/

It is true that AI currently can not program it self. Programming is directed by humans, but that also is a problem.

This stuff really humors me. Despite all the popular culture (i.e. Terminator, iRobot, etc), there really is no way that computers can "take over the world." Not beyond what we allow them, at least.

Thus my point, “ Programming is directed by humans, but that also is a problem.”

In summary:

@dr-go said in The 15 Best Miles Davis Quotes:

"What the F**K do you know about trumpet playing" is what Miles stated as he kicked a 17 year old Eddie Henderson out of his Ferrari for critiquing his performance at a club.

Number 17
At least he had a pretty good day job later in life.

An interesting article today on AI and ChatGPt- “Europe Sounds The Alarm On ChatGPT”
An excerpt:
“…. that ChatGPT, just one of thousands of AI platforms currently in use, can assist criminals with phishing, malware creation and even terrorist acts.
If a potential criminal knows nothing about a particular crime area, ChatGPT can speed up the research process significantly by offering key information that can then be further explored in subsequent steps,” the Europol report stated. “As such, ChatGPT can be used to learn about a vast number of potential crime areas with no prior knowledge, ranging from how to break into a home to terrorism, cybercrime and child sexual abuse.”

The full article link is here:
https://news.yahoo.com/europe-sounds-the-alarm-on-chatgpt-090013543.html

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

Let's not forget that infamous musician, Le Pétomane, satirized in Blazing Saddles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P�%
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A true classic:
And, it’s all in the air support, compression, and long tones.

Barliman and George,
Thanks for watching it as well as your kind comments. It was a fun project to put together!

An article from May 8, 2023 New York Magazine indicates that deep fake vocals are of outstanding quality and are getting simple to create. I would imagine that the deep fake virtuoso instrumentalist is not too far behind.
Below is a brief selection and a link to the full article.

“AI Singers Are Unnervingly Good and Already Ubiquitous

The software that cloned Drake and the Weeknd is easy to use—and impossible to shut down…

…Two months ago, AI voice-cloning technology barely existed. Now it’s forcing the music industry to consider such tricky questions as whether pop stars own the sounds produced by their own larynges and if we even need flesh-and-blood pop stars at all anymore…”

https://www.vulture.com/article/ai-singers-drake-the-weeknd-voice-clones.html

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226 A friend of mine in college used to laugh his ass off (pun intended) listening to this.

I first heard this at age 10 -12 in the late 1950’s. My father had recorded it on a reel to reel tape. I would sneak into his office and listen to it along with some recordings of Bell Barth.
The original recording of the International Crepitation Contest has an interesting history For those interested, here it is:

“The Battle at Thunderblow: The Great Crepitation Contest of 1946” is a comedy record of mysterious origins that gives a play-by-play account of an international farting contest between Lord Windesmear and challenger Paul Boomer. The exact source of the record is unknown, but according to a post on Rand’s Esoteric OTR it was created by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sports announcer Sydney S. Brown and producer Jules Lipton some time in the 1940s.

Although it appears to have been only produced as an internal joke and not commercially distributed, it managed to survive as a benchmark of high-end fart comedy for more than half a century.

On August 27, 2022, 95 year old Doc Severinsen, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., performed in his “final concert”. Below are both links to both an article and video about this. Highlights of Doc’s performance start at around 1:45 in this video taken by one of the attendees.

https://bestclassicbands.com/doc-severinsen-final-concert-8-31-22/

@dr-go
“ So when applied to the world of Medicine, Bots do not do so well:
ChatGPT, a popular artificial intelligence language-processing model, failed a gastroenterology self-assessment test several times in a recent study. Versions 3 and 4 of the chatbot scored only 65% and 62%, respectively, on the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Self-Assessment Test. The minimum passing grade is 70%.”

Chat GPT’s knowledge base consists of both professional based as well as non professional Information and misinformation (see my query below). To complicate matters, professional level information is in a constant state of flux. In my own experience of Board Certification and multiple Recertifications, the questions often remained the same but the answers changed each exam, on some occasions reverting back to answers that were correct 20 or 30 years before. Taking all this into consideration, and that Chat GPT was not designed as a medical device, it is not surprising that it had a mediocre score answering GI questions.

However, this is Is just the beginning. Imagine an advanced bot given access to only state of the art valid medical & scientific information with interpretation. Given the proper knowledge base as well as accurate input of a patients clinical data, I would predict that it would be William Osler and “House” on Steroids!

Query to ChatGPT:

Has your knowledge base been tested against standardized medical licensure examinations, specialty board examinations, or medical competency examinations?

As an AI language model, my responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data. I have not been directly trained on specific medical licensure examinations, specialty board examinations, or medical competency examinations. While I strive to provide accurate and up-to-date information, it's important to note that my responses may not always reflect the most current medical guidelines or practices. Therefore, it's always a good idea to consult a medical professional or trusted source for specific medical advice or information.

@BigDub said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

Witness protection family portrait.

Now I see why you don’t do portaits!

@kehaulani said in What Is This Thing Called Swing” Meets “She Blinded Me With Science”:

Good Lord, Jazz is an aural art, more connected to the physicality and rhythms of a basketball court than to a scientific micro-analysis.

You listen, get the rhythm in your bones, and, in the words of Clark Terry, "Imitate, Assimilate, Innovate".

The study was done with the “aural” analysis of professional Jazz Musicians listening and rating samples. “After listening to original and digitally tweaked piano recordings, jazz musicians were more than seven times as likely to rate music as “swinging” when the soloist’s timing was partially delayed with respect to the rhythm section, researchers report….” It analyzes and quantitates the “rhythm in your bones” for those of us who don’t have that gift, or for those who have it but can’t accurately define it and want to better understand it.

It has reached a new level!

https://www.twitch.tv/ask_jesus

@J-Jericho said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

@SSmith1226 said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

I don't recall seeing this one, and it appears too large to miss. Is it not in Parque Güell?

El Beso (the kiss) is a large sculpture in the "Parque del Amor" (Love Park) by the Pacific Ocean in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru. It depicts the sculptor, Victor Delfín, and his wife kissing. According to local accounts, the mayor of the district holds (or used to hold) a competition for the couple who could sustain the longest kiss, and this sculpture celebrates this. The park is inspired by Antoni Gaudí's Parc Guell in Barcelona. My wife and I visited Parque del Amor (Lima) in March. Coincidentally we were in Parque Guell (aka Gaudi’s Park) July of 2018 (see below). We immediately equated the style of the two parks and were quite surprised that Guadi did not design and create the Parque del Amor.

What Is This Thing Called Swing” Meets “She Blinded Me With Science”
Yesterday a scientific paper was released in the “Communication Physics” section of Nature.Com titled, “Downbeat delays are a key component of swing in jazz”.
Most people on this site would agree that in order to “Swing”, a musician extends the duration of their downbeats — every other eighth note — and shorten the beats in between to create a galloping rhythm. But the technique on its own doesn’t explain swing. The scientific analysis presented in this study concludes that listeners judge music as more swinging when the soloists’ downbeats were minutely delayed with respect to the rhythm section, but not their offbeats. This conclusion is instinctively, or subconsciously known by many successful jazz musicians, but is not consciously known by many musicians,
The full link of the article is below. The abstract reads as follows: “To which extent and how do jazz musicians synchronize their timing to create swing?” Swing is a salient feature of jazz music, yet its main psychoacoustical and musical components have remained elusive—save the obvious long-short subdivision of quarter notes. In particular, the possible role of microtiming deviations for swing has been a subject of long-standing controversy. Adopting an operational definition of swing we present a study which ultimately demonstrates a positive effect of certain microtiming deviations on swing. We manipulate the timing of original piano recordings to carry out an experiment with professional and semi-professional jazz musicians measuring the swing of different timing conditions. Thereby we prove that slightly delayed downbeats and synchronized offbeats of a soloist with respect to a rhythm section enhance swing. Analyzing a set of 456 jazz improvisations we find that many jazz musicians do use minute downbeat delays. These results show that systematic microtiming deviations in the form of downbeat delays are a key component of swing in jazz.”

Full Link
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-022-00995-z

CONCLUSION: 
It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing, and stagger your timing.

It has been nearly 2 months since the last post on this topic. Here is the latest credible opinion:

Youtube Video

2018:

According to “M Live”, 

“Wynton Marsalis to help Michigan marching band ring in 125th Anniversary at halftime

ANN ARBOR, MI - Jazz and the University of Michigan Marching Band are around the same age.
Jazz historians say that while the genre evolved over the 19th century, a commonly accepted origin was in New Orleans around 1895, according to NewOrleans.com.
A year after that, Harry dePont gathered gathered around 30 musicians on UM’s campus in Ann Arbor to establish a student-run marching band, according to the band’s website. In the fall of 1897, band leader Lewellyn Renwick and his musicians accompanied the football team to Detroit to perform during a 14-0 victory by Michigan over Minnesota.
This fall marks the band’s 125th anniversary, and during halftime at this weekend’s football game, its history will merge with the legacy of American jazz in a show with one of the genre’s living icons.
Wynton Marsalis, a 9-time Grammy Award winner and the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for composition -- along with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra -- will collaborate with the marching band at halftime of Michigan’s home football game Saturday against Penn State.….”

To read the rest of the article, use the link below. Videos relative to this are below aa well.

 https://mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/10/wynton-marsalis-to-help-michigan-marching-band-ring-in-125th-anniversary.html