This is the correct answer and is being used by teacher friends of mine with great success.
The structure they chose is in-class work counts for 80%+ of their grade. All work in class is done with pencil & paper. Quite simple in fact to solve a large part of the homework cheating issue.
that does mean that there is less classroom time devoted to lecture or other activities though if the teacher is supervising drills and group work, but it might be the only realistic way to proceed
> I can't concieve even the flimsiest of reasons why anyone would ever listen to (or license/sync/track/ ) any of those generated songs once the novelty of "music made by the AI" is gone.
Easy: Independent/single-dev operations needing some quick background music for a project (game, whatever)
This is already easily solved by using royalty-free music or by licensing pre-made music from numerous publicly available sound libraries online -- with the added benefit of supporting actual musicians instead of plagiarist tech middlemen.
I think you got this wrong. Usually you use one electronic musician to create all the background music (or license pre-existing popular music), and with music AI you make that musician more productive. It is not like non-musicians will even be able to select the bad from the good of the AI output. It takes a trained ear to build functional AI music as well.
Nobody will hire live studio musicians or a symphony orchestra to create background music. Way too expensive.
What exactly am I getting wrong? You insisting that nobody hires studio musicians or orchestras, and claiming that "usually you hire one electronic musician" are both demonstrably false opinions that have almost no relation to my point that background music is obtainable through on-demand licensed libraries.
Also: People (especially kids, students, etc) who want to make music but don't have the technical expertise to (yet?).
Obviously these tools don't do everything necessary to make great music, but the barrier of entry to making music is being lowered, and the quality floor is being raised -- and that'll result in a lot more would-be "musicians"[0] creating music that wouldn't otherwise exist[1].
[0] I leave the argument of whether these generative musicians count as "real" musicians to the Scotsmen in the audience.
[1] Bonus question: does art still hold value if no one sees it?
o1's take on your bonus question seems reasonable :
Yes. Art can have intrinsic and personal value for its creator, independent of any external audience. Unseen art lacks immediate external value [to others] but retains latent worth, potentially realized when discovered or appreciated in the future.
This comes up quite a lot - lowering the barrier to entry for creating a bunch of media that wouldn't otherwise exist.
Eh I don't think the world is exactly clamoring for even more music.
I can't speak for everyone's process, but if you don't know how to make music, I'm not convinced that this allows you to do so because the medium of input (aka writing text) is far too divergent from the resultant melodic output to allow for any kind of meaningful individuality.
> Also: People (especially kids, students, etc) who want to make music but don't have the technical expertise to (yet?).
But fuck all the people who have a career teaching them those skills as a part of a thousands-year long artistic tradition whose value isn't solely defined by the exchange of currency for lessons, but in that it subsidizes those artists' work which goes unpaid and furthers human experience.
It's wonderful techies with a surface level knowledge of the arts are cannibalizing the entire supply chain and marketplace so they can make a buck off the AI craze.
The barrier to entry is already zero. AI lowers the ceiling, not the floor.
I cannot believe how exhausting (and expensive) this investigation has been for you. I had a GI surgery and one of the possible outcomes was permanent nausea, and when I woke up I had nausea for about 3 months and it was horrific. The symptoms resolved on their own after a while, and for a time I believe them to be psychosomatic, so I began meditation. In the end I don't know, but that must be scary.
I'm curious if fecal microbiota transplantation has been discussed? From what I can tell the gut biome is under studied and the effects are pretty scattered and wide. Thoughts?
I tried signing back up a couple weeks ago and despite not following and then blocking Elon, and only following non and a-political topics, I was inundated with right wing propaganda. Every 4-5th post was from Elon or similar. It was too distracting to use normally so I deleted my account and moved on.
There is such immense stored power in the universe, yet humans are struggling to harness even a tickle of the suns power via solar panels. Put into perspective of our galaxy, there is hardly no power difference between us and ants. Wild!
SVB shares are worth $0 because there was a run on the bank and the US Government did not step in to save the bank, only the depositors.
If the same thing happens to other banks - everyone withdraws, they shut down and the government steps in - the assumption is that their equity will eventually be worth $0 too. So, everyone sells at >$0.
> SVB shares are worth $0 because there was a run on the bank and the US Government did not step in to save the bank, only the depositors.
And there was a bank run because the investors panicked and caused the share price to plummet. Depositors saw stock plummeting, got nervous and pulled out. If this type of thing spreads to other banks we'll have a bad time.
Hence, the US government stepping in to ensure both depositors are made whole, and (more importantly) saying that the banks can redeem their underwater treasury bills at par (up to some limit under some circumstances obviously).
Hopefully this isn't too little, too late. There are already a few regional banks with share prices getting hammered in the market this morning regardless of the intervention.
I've been looking for something similar for AI git commit messages... basically feed ChatGPT a git diff and ask it what changed and to write a git message. I've done this directly in the ChatGPT UI with some small changes and it produces some great messages...
I would be very concerned to run this on company code or large diffs. But small simple commits, which should be the goal with commit messages anyways, would take away some of the tedium of the git flow.
The structure they chose is in-class work counts for 80%+ of their grade. All work in class is done with pencil & paper. Quite simple in fact to solve a large part of the homework cheating issue.