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These are the artists for whom the improbability engine worked its magic, even if not in their lifetimes. But how many undiscovered Nietzsches, Blakes and Dickinsons are there, who never caught the light, and now lie lost, sedimented into unreachably deep strata of the human canon? How many ''living'' artists are brilliantly ploughing an under-appreciated furrow, cursing their own immaculate Bayesian priors? How many solitary geniuses are out there who, as we speak, are galloping towards an obscurity a [[large language model]] might save them from? | These are the artists for whom the improbability engine worked its magic, even if not in their lifetimes. But how many undiscovered Nietzsches, Blakes and Dickinsons are there, who never caught the light, and now lie lost, sedimented into unreachably deep strata of the human canon? How many ''living'' artists are brilliantly ploughing an under-appreciated furrow, cursing their own immaculate Bayesian priors? How many solitary geniuses are out there who, as we speak, are galloping towards an obscurity a [[large language model]] might save them from? | ||
(I know of at least one: the international rockabilly singer [[Daniel Jeanrenaud]], known to his fans as the [[Camden Cat]], who for thirty years has plied his trade with a beat up acoustic guitar on the Northern Line, and once wrote and recorded one of the great rockabilly singles of all time. | (I know of at least one: the international rockabilly singer [[Daniel Jeanrenaud]], known to his fans as the [[Camden Cat]], who for thirty years has plied his trade with a beat up acoustic guitar on the Northern Line, and once wrote and recorded one of the great rockabilly singles of all time. Here it is on {{Plainlink|1=https://soundcloud.com/thecamdencats/you-carry-on?si=24ececd75c0540faafd470d822971ab7|2=SoundCloud}}.) | ||
(Digression over.) | (Digression over.) | ||
=== If AI is just a cheapest-to-deliver strategy you are doing it wrong === | === If AI is just a cheapest-to-deliver strategy you are doing it wrong === | ||