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None of these are impressive in the least. Anything I have heard from Udio is basically trash. It is the AI art equivalent of synthetic cats and pretty face shots. Who cares.

What is ultimately going to be undefeated is training your own model.

I mean how can we ever trust a microscope when the human eye can not see at that level of magnification?

What if the hammer gets angry and starts hitting us in the head? How can you not see the danger in getting hit in the head by a hammer?

This is all just short term noise and no one will ask these stupid questions soon enough. In the meantime, it makes for good theater on podcasts.

People don't see self-replicating machine elves if they have no idea who Terence McKenna is.

Ultimately, these are easily programmed experiences by people good at creating mythology. The more pseudoscientific one makes the mythology the better too of course or at least some loose connection to pseudoscience.

If we just say elves then it is obviously ridiculous. Self-replicating machines sounds STEM enough.

That was McKenna's brilliant con-artistry. Painting a STEM varnish on centuries old bullshit that no one would have bothered reading about otherwise.

"domain experts" are often totally wrong and there is nothing new about this.

When our state of knowledge of the world changes , "domain experts" have the most to lose and our state of knowledge of the world is constantly changing.

Most domains also don't have the exactness of a programming language so are exposed to the same human processes as displayed in a middle school popularity contest.

The whole concept of the "domain expert" is really a modern superstition. An especially powerful superstition because it is the superstition of those who believe themselves beyond superstition.