[TriLUG] Linux From Scratch

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

OK.  I'll concede that AI sucks for creativity too :-)

Everyone unhappy now? :-)

William Sutton

On Fri, 28 Feb 2025, Stephen Wiley via TriLUG wrote:

> Yeah I was going to say: AI is pretty horrible for creative tasks. I
> actually have Qwen hooked up to vim so it suggests things for anything I
> write (including email.) I don't think I've ever actually accepted a
> suggestion from it outside a program because, of course, it doesn't add
> any information to what I'm writing. That's the thing about art, it's
> not just noisy flailing: there's a signal and communication. In good art
> the artist is communicating some kind of message to the viewer. They're
> just not doing it in a conventional way. LLMs don't really have much to
> say because they don't have lives of their own so they're really worse
> at art than programming.
>
> --Stephen
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 08:32:06PM +0000, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025, via TriLUG wrote:
>> 
>> > On 28/02/2025 11:28, William Sutton via TriLUG wrote:
>> > > For creative endeavours, like generating music, images, etc., AI can
>> > > be a useful tool.
>> 
>> I went away for a week with a fellow who insisted on playing XM radio music
>> the whole time. It was relentlessly boring and repetitive. It had to have
>> been written by AI. I saw that there was no possibility of a Toccata and
>> Fugue in D minor or a Johnny B. Goode coming out of AI.
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
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>> better - it could work worse; it may not work at all.
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