20 Minute AI Appraisals Are Coming

[cpursley]

(also, this proves how terrible and formulaic Nashville cubical farm-written pop-country already is)

 

[J Grant]

Everything I do in an appraisal is also derivative EXCEPT for my own observations

As humans, we think constantly as we conduct those "derivative tasks", which shapes how they are done and leads to our observations.

People way overestimate what AI is. It has a lofty title, artificial intelligence, but authors of books disagree that it is truly "intelligent.". It is simply a highly advanced computer function. In a few fields, such as science and medicine, its sheer ability to crunch enormous sets of data and spit out some unorthodox conclusions has led to diagnoses of hard-to-pinpoint illnesses and new drug combos.

In AI learning, it might be taught to have a moral or ethical conscience, not really a conscience, but a set of boundaries. That means AI could also be programmed not to have those boundaries. Thus, AI programmed to monitor water safety can be programmed to release toxic chemicals into the water as well. And The AI won't care; it did as instructed.

The potential for harm, IMO outweighs the good, IMO - esp for warfare, autonomous weapons and drones, surveillance, propaganda, etc.

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[cpursley]

(also, this proves how terrible and formulaic Nashville cubical farm-written pop-country already is)

That said, I'm waiting for a good AI backing track solution that can fill out the drums and bass to songs I write on guitar. That would be huge and puts nobody out of a job.

 

[J Grant]

(also, this proves how terrible and formulaic Nashville cubical farm-written pop-country already is)

Computer assisted or AI prompt assisted art, music and writing is vapid mediocre souless rehassing of plagiarized existing works.

At least there are ways to detect it, and autheros, artists, creative companies, and writers are suing - but not fast enough ( yet) to stop it. Perhaps when the novelty wears off and the flood of boring, vapid, generic music and books with the same plot and cardboard characters gets tiresome, people will value the creative originality of humans that can touch the soul even more.

A generation raised as sheeple with how many likes you get on Instagram - well lets hope that herd mentality is not the whole of their inner lives - seems to be, when so many social media stars are dead of suicie or unomn causes in their twenties - something is missing, something is driving them to do that and the teen mental illness rates reflect the problem as welll.

 

[J Grant]

That said, I'm waiting for a good AI backing track solution that can fill out the drums and bass to songs I write on guitar. That would be huge and puts nobody out of a job.

Just hire some talented drum and bass players instead to back up the track.

AI can not replace the warmth and depths of human playing - if AI is of any use, maybe its pitch or tone can be of an instrument that does not exist yet. Develop THAT and become rich!

 

[cpursley]

Computer assisted or AI prompt assisted art, music and writing is vapid mediocre souless rehassing of plagiarized existing works.

My daughter and I have had a TON of fun writing songs and generating images with the assistance AI (under my supervision; she doesn't get device access by herself). It's stimulated her creativity in a way that was not possible when we were growing up. It's actually help her develop logic and critical thing skills as she's learned how to prompt fun stuff like this:

 

[cpursley]

Just hire some talented drum and bass players instead to back up the track.

As soon as you venmo me over cost for doing this and handle the talent sourcing for me...

 

[J Grant]

My daughter and I have had a TON of fun writing songs and generating images with the assistance AI (under my supervision; she doesn't get device access by herself). It's stimulated her creativity in a way that was not possible when we were growing up. It's actually help her develop logic and critical thing skills as she's learned how to prompt fun stuff like this:

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I don't know your daughter's age, and the above is charming, but what, if anything, sets it apart from what other kids or teenagers her age can prompt ?

Propting combines what already exists to produce pleasant but forgettable images because they are everywhere in the popular culture/Disney sphere.-Sure it is fun but how does it engage critical thinking skills - every generation produces some according to what is avail but it seems AI might replace those skills rather than stimulate them in some cases.

 

[cpursley]

Sure it is fun but how does it engage critical thinking skills

To start, you have to come up with something to ask it. And the more whacky and creative, the more fun the output. That alone is more active than passive cartoons and the like. Try it some time.

 

[Vermonter]

AI for expert witness testimony-

RIP Motion Capture.

China's ByteDance just dropped DreamActor-M1.

This AI turns any image into realistic, full-body human animations 🤯

10 wild examples:

1. Marilyn Monroe comes alive pic.twitter.com/dEL3FkDPSo

— Min Choi (@minchoi) April 3, 2025