My startup can make you sing as Taylor Swift.
Not like Taylor Swift. As Taylor Swift.
We'll have our new product out very very shortly.
We're at end times.
Not like Taylor Swift. As Taylor Swift.
We'll have our new product out very very shortly.
We're at end times.
If you're not excited by these rapidly improving results, then I don't know what to tell you. I think you can extrapolate what lies just ahead if you think about it.
I've been a tech pessimist for the last two decades of my life, and I can strangely now state that this is the most important and exciting time of my entire life and career. Everything we know is about to change.
I can't believe that this is the timeline we're in and that it's actively unfolding now. It's like a dream. It's hard to grasp and come to terms with.
Just think for a second about what these models are doing. This is going to happen to every product category.
Think too about Carmack's recent claims.
ML and Rust +++
Even if I like Taylor Swift, what would be the point?
Tomorrow, you want more Taylor Swift and you tell the computer to give it to you. It delivers with no human intervention whatsoever. You love it, but want it a bit more country - so be it. Piano and acoustic. Got it. A duet between her and Bruno Mars. Just for you.
Michael Jackson and Elvis? Nothing is without possibility.
Brand new singers. Instruments and styles we could never conceive of - all about to happen.
A never-ending stream of novel music that tailors itself to you.
Already being dreamed up.
I'm building this, have parts of it already working, and I'm sure others are as well.
Every inch of your day to day life is about to change in a way that will make developments brought on by smartphones and the Internet pale in comparison.
> A never-ending stream of novel music that tailors itself to you.
That's worthless. A firehose of novelty is almost immediately no longer novel.
Why would anyone want this?
It's the same problem already with streaming services and their own series. They're all already joyless and immediately forgettable. They have less and less value.
Your breathlessly described "amazing transformation" sounds incredibly boring and pointless.
It's easy to say that as someone on the outside without skin in the game, not working on this, not in the know.
> That's worthless. A firehose of novelty is almost immediately no longer novel.
And yet here you are on HN. I'll bet you have a Twitter and phone and consume social media, too. That's all just a poor man's version of what we'll be building.
> Why would anyone want this?
I have literally wanted this exact thing all of my life.
There have only been a handful of films I've walked out of and felt truly satisfied. I've seen thousands of movies shot by mere hundreds of directors at best. That's billions of dollars of institutional capital put behind a few lucky white men for what amounts to as a "meh" at best. Now we can empower anyone to have their own take at it. To build and express anything. To sift and sort through emotional/concept space and deliver truly new things.
We get one short life to experience the universe. Let's climb the gradient to the stars and experience the limits.
> It's the same problem already with streaming services and their own series. They're all already joyless and immediately forgettable. They have less and less value.
Spaghetti thrown at walls by blank check writing firms trying to capture eyeballs. This isn't at all what I'm talking about. This technology will bankrupt that type of behavior.
Everyone will have access to these tools and be able to build whatever their heart desires. Whatever they want to put out into the world for the rest of us to experience.
> Your breathlessly described "amazing transformation" sounds incredibly boring and pointless.
I don't get you, but that's fine. We'll be building away regardless.
I don't think humans are the end point of our tiny quadrant of the universe. We're a transitional blip. This is just part of the changing of the guard. And the transformation will yield beautifully captivating results. I'm here to contribute and experience.
A better version of a net negative is still negative.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it really sounds like more of what we've already proven isn't good.
> It's easy to say that as someone on the outside without skin in the game, not working on this, not in the know.
But you sound like you're in a cult.