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{{a|tech| | {{a|tech|{{image|Tipp-Ex|jpg|For your monitor, sir.}}}}:''“Unlike a covered call, which is about promising to sell what you actually own, a naked call is about promising to sell what you don’t actually own. | ||
:''Like wearing a nice sweatshirt, learning the lingo, and hanging out at a hackerspace with a code editor open, looking the part, but only scrambling to learn a new skill if somebody actually hints they might want to hire you if their funding comes through in a few months. | :''Like wearing a nice sweatshirt, learning the lingo, and hanging out at a hackerspace with a code editor open, looking the part, but only scrambling to learn a new skill if somebody actually hints they might want to hire you if their funding comes through in a few months. | ||
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In short, everything you need to recreate Abbey Road studios: its acoustics, amplifiers, mics, pianos, synths, analogue keyboards, autotune, the BBC orchestra, compression, limiting, mixing and mastering — everything can be done inside a laptop, thanks to the power of AI and algorithm, using software that costs less than a couple of grand. | In short, everything you need to recreate Abbey Road studios: its acoustics, amplifiers, mics, pianos, synths, analogue keyboards, autotune, the BBC orchestra, compression, limiting, mixing and mastering — everything can be done inside a laptop, thanks to the power of AI and algorithm, using software that costs less than a couple of grand. | ||
The better question: why is AI elsewhere so much | The better question: why is AI elsewhere so much ''worse'' than that what currently exists in music production. | ||
We wonder if what is going on here is a basic misunderstanding of sensible and silly applications of [[AI]]. | |||
AI ''assisting'' artists to make art — fulfilling limited, directed tasks, as do the music applications listed above — is liberating and expansionary. It lets human creators get on with the interesting parts of the creative process, while outsourcing the drudgerous and technical ones to a machine that won't complain or get them wrong, and will basically follow human instructions. The artist remains in executive control of the enterprise. | |||
But [[AI]] ''replacing'' artists to make art is, after half an hour, rubbish, unless you like a horse with three legs, one of which comes out of its head. AI legal tech is, out of the gate, rubbish, and basically good for nothing. | |||
No-one wants music that can write itself. ''Writing music is fun''. Artists don't create good music or paint good pictures in order to generate commoditisable art: that is the goal of music ''publishing'': that is a second order derivative of art — commercial activity that depends on art. Artists write and paint because they have something to say. It is a very human impulse to project. Creating is what enlightened human beings were designed for. Asking algorithms to create music misses the basic ''point'' of music, which is human: a cultural sharing and a non-verbal conveyance of mood and sentiment between people. It is to skip the creative process altogether and go straight to publishing. The thing that the commercial activity at first depended on is ''missing''. | |||
If you want random, machine-generated rhythmic noise you don't need AI: you just need a sewing machine. | |||
The other amazing thing about music tech is the absence of rent extraction. The software is designed to be run by the user without help, intermediation or a “service”; the expectation is ''no [[software as a service|software-as-a-service]]'' ''because the software is so good you don’t need any service''. | |||
===What [[reg tech]] ''ought'' to do=== | ===What [[reg tech]] ''ought'' to do=== | ||
*'''[[Yngwie Malmsteen paradox|Allows infinite flexibility]]''': In the olden days you needed a typist with some carbon paper: there was a real cost to manipulating words. You were trained to be economical. {{yngwie malmsteen paradox capsule}} | *'''[[Yngwie Malmsteen paradox|Allows infinite flexibility]]''': In the olden days you needed a typist with some carbon paper: there was a real cost to manipulating words. You were trained to be economical. {{yngwie malmsteen paradox capsule}} | ||