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Simply copying and regurgitating wholesale and passing off as your own, yes. Part of what 'intelligence' is, is the ability to learn by copying. At the moment, that's the only element of 'inteligence' in artificial intelligence.
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It's an ABBA cover band, so totally 70's😎
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I have to say I was impressed with an AI item for the first time last week. I was documenting an IT infrastructure architecture using a tool called Notion. I'd written the text and wanted to add a diagram but couldn't find how to start the diagramming widgetry. I was looking around for help and it said to press spacebar for ai. So I pressed spacebar and typed "draw architecture diagram", expecting some generic boxes and lines to appear. But no, it drew my diagram, including three scenarios I'd written into the text. It had depicted the layers top-down, whereas I wanted them bottom-up, but otherwise it was spot-on. (I think my very structured descriptions had enabled it to infer the componentry.) OTOH, I have a colleague who is using ChatGPT to help him write Bash scripts; mostly they're OK, if a bit quirky sometimes. Well, there was one which wasn't working and it took us a while to figure out what it was doing, but it was still erroring. After a bit of reading of man pages, comparing Mac vs. Linux I spotted the issue: it was supplying an empty string "" in the place of an optional arg. Deleting that fixed it. So, it got a prototype in place, but (a) complicated the issue and (b) had a syntax error. Summary: AI can be good and impressive, but you always have to keep your eye on it and not blindly accept its outputs as verbatim.
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Reduced to £90 posted. Hi all! Bought this as a newbie as it was one of the pedals I thought I needed but I haven’t used it at all bar a few little tries. I tested it against 6 other octavers and it was easily the best but it just will never get used for my preferences in playing style and music I like. Brand new condition as you can see, I haven’t even used the feet and there is no Velcro on it. Boxed with all the bits as new. New to selling on here but a long eBay history (robdob444 on eBay) and huge history and feedback on Retrobike too. Price includes insured postage. Will be cheaper collected obviously. Any questions please ask! -
Hi All, Here we have my 1995 Warwick Streamer Bolt-On. Selling as I want to move back to 4's. These were a higher end precursor to the LX series, that have the original, and much curvier body shape just like the Stage 2. It was built in May/June of 1995 in Germany. Has a French Cherry Wood body, 7-piece laminate neck of Maple and Bubinga stringers with a Wenge fingerboard replete with Bell Brass frets. Pickups are twin MEC Jazz pickups with a 2-Band MEC preamp with push/pull passive switching. Tonally it's got bags of that growl as you would expect, with a very focused/compressed tone - in short, the Warwick tone. The treble control acts to my ears more like a tone control, from piercingly hi-fi and trebly to the smoother punchier sound a la Stuart Zender. Condition is 8.5 out of 10. It's a 30 year old bass but has worn it's miles incredibly well, You'd struggle to find a Warwick of this age in equally as good condition. Only thing to report is some slight shrinkage of the maple in the neck which means the middle Bubinga stringer in the neck, near the headstock, sits about a half a MM proud - again, super common with Warwicks, all my others have had this. It's recently had £400 spent getting it road ready, with a brand new setup, brand new truss rod, fret work and new input jack. Weight is a superb 3.8kg Does not come with a case. Collection from Moreton in Marsh located on the Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire/Warwickshire border. Will happily drive wherever for a handover if required. My feedback attests to this! I won't post due to value and poor previous experiences in doing so. Any further questions please ask! Thanks for looking! -
AI Jaco only needed three strings, that's why.
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Why is it that AI can't count? So many generated images miss off tuners.
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It’s not just images. It’s hoovering up all the content on the internet, including written content, music and images and regurgitating it. Plagiarism is, or should be, a moral outrage. We, as a society, are giving access of valuable material for free to tech companies who will then charge us to buy it back, repackaged and recontextualised. Mind you, this is the country where people will happily share their DNA with a company if they get some report that says they’re somehow related to a king etc. Anyone involved in the creative industries should hate and fear what AI is doing today - and could do in the future.
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Favorite Bass playing from a Marillion song
Cosmo Valdemar replied to KC4M's topic in General Discussion
Anything off Fugazi - killer 80s tone and high up in the mix. Probably the rubbery, twisty main riff to Emerald Lies. -
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AI isn’t smart, it just copies existing things - and the image libraries they are copying (like a regular google image search) mostly have copywrite held by someone else. Either a company or artist (imagine an image of Daffy Duck or David Hockney image) or owned by someone else (my holiday snaps of my kids meeting Daffy Duck at Disneyland or Tate gallery’s photo of a Hockney image) so while AI could make me look like Daffy Duck in a hockney photo - it has no right to the images it’s training itself on. which isn’t good.
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Hi all, Here we have my Fernandes Gravity 5x. Bought last year as a back up to my Warwick, but now being sold as I'm trying to move away from 5s and am looking for a different sound. There's not a lot of info out there about these, as they seem to be quite uncommon. It dates from 2008 and is made in China. Twin single coil pickups with vol, vol, tone. Simple as it gets. Tonally it's got a quite aggressive sound, the twin Jazz pickups are really high output, with a really punchy sound. You'll note the front pickup is moved towards the bridge compared to the usual J/J set ups, definitely gives it a funkier, mid-rangey sound. The tone pot is effective all the way round, giving a wide sweep of different tones (and a really funky rear pickup sound). B-string was the biggest surprise for me on this bass. It's very taught and defined, better than many other basses I've had at 4/5x the price. It's in 9/10 condition. It recently had a brand new input jack installed and plays very cleanly across all frets. A nice first foray into a 5 string for someone, or a great reliable, good sounding backup. Weight is a lovely 3.9 kg. Collection from Moreton in Marsh, which is located on the Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire/Warwickshire border. Will happily meet up within an hour's drive for handover, or a bit further for a small petrol contribution (purely due to the low cost of the bass). Thanks for looking! -
That’s actually very good. cGPT has managed to recreate my video review set in pretty incredible detail, not to mention the great big muppet sat front and centre.
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I taught guitar in schools for many years. Here's a few thoughts you may want to bear in mind Dunno about recent changes that might have taken place, but county music services used not to like working with kids under 7. That said, if the student is keen and the teacher/parent is prepared to put in the work (and be patient - a quality you will need in spades), I don't see why not. Just a few pointers if I may: 1. Start small - as in 1/4 size guitars. There's no point in giving her a guitar with a neck she can't get her fingers round, as it will likely kill her enthusiasm stone dead. 2. I would suggest nylon strung at this stage. (tbh I'm not sure you can even buy a 1/4 electric, and even if you can, chances are it'll be poor quality. Most small electrics I've come across have been absolute rubbish.) Then again, times have changed since I last taught, so things may have improved. 3. You'll need plenty of patience (did I say that already?). When you've been playing most of your life, it's very easy to forget that at 5, everything is new. Early progress is likely to be slow and painstaking, and most of the bad playing habits I've had to try and sort out over the years had been acquired early on. 4. If she can maintain interest, you might want to start looking for a tutor after a few months. As I said, a lot of tutors don't work with really young kids, but if you can find a good one who does, that would be worth considering. As always in such matters, this is all just my opinion based on my years of experience. Feel free to ignore any or all of it.
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PEERLESS SMOKED BASS CUSTOM *EB-2D Semi Acoustic*
Schnozzalee replied to Schnozzalee's topic in Basses For Sale
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The subtle, non-confrontational approach then.....😁
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If there was a demonstratable likeness to any Muppet character, one would have to argue one's case against a battery of highfaluting Disney lawyers with deep pockets. Whether one wins or not could be independent of the rights or wrongs of the case, just the finances engaged. Such is Justice in these realms.
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If your ever in the USA (I don't know why you would want to be) hit me up.
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I say to the drummer (always the same guy) "you're slowing down" (or speeding up).
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Digital Radiohead Consensual Kiss Neil Old
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Quite the claim. I think you should tell us what band you are in. I'd be keen to see the best sounding band ever
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Ah - the word muppet (I was thinking about the tech)... I hadn't realised it was that old, but the term, "marionette" + "puppet", was first used by Jim Henson in 1955. The point does bring up an interesting question, though: if the developers of the system don't code in the word "muppet" and the request is to "draw me like a puppet", where is the infringement?
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Four... and three strings?
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Having owned my XR18 for just over ten years, mixing from the side of the stage whilst playing, last night was a first for me as I went out as a sound guy, working for a mates band who had just bought their own XR18 (albeit v2). So before the gig, I created a new scene file on my XR with all the basic settings I could pre-gig (channel layout, hpf’s, global effects, stereo combinator etc and then took my Surface Go to the gig with the scene file loaded and simply transferred the scene to the their XR. I did update my firmware and X-Air Edit to the latest versions first so there were no difficulties between the v1 and v2 hardware and all worked perfectly. Being able to sit with a live band going for it really taught me a lot about my mix, particularly around eq’ing. Making space for each instrument is vital, and gating all those horrible open drum mics is essential to stop your whole mix becoming a mud bath. I really enjoyed the experience and the only complaint was they were too loud 😎 I also managed to multi-track record about 75% of the gig for them so will have fun over the coming days mixing that lot down. Interestingly, they were using a TP Link router with both 5GHz and 2.4GHz channels. I was using the 5GHz channel for the Surface Go, but my old 2012 MacBook that I was using as a back-up and to do the recording was connected on the 2.4GHz channel. The Surface Go suffered three drop outs over the course of the night whereas the MacBook stayed connected throughout the whole evening. The venue POS system was running on a 5GHz network albeit separate channel but I guess this was the culprit.
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The term 'Muppet' is owned by Disney and/or Henson, and anything that resembles any Muppet character could be subject to litigation.
