That's the whole point of LLM, connecting all the missing dots no single human could possible keep in working knowledge, even just for a subfield of mathematics alone. The era of polymaths is over for a reason, so we build a new one to tackle that. If LLMs can build on top of that once all remaining ones are found or if this stalls is yet to be proven, but humans stalled out there too.
With the trend of things, this seems like good timing for the RHCP estates with a not so unlikely collapse of licensing revenue happening in the near future.
I wonder if you tend to see more artists selling their back catalogues at times like this when some technological disruption is casting doubt on their ability to continue to generate income from them. David Bowie was famously one of the first artists to securitise music royalties, in 1997, basically at the dawn of the digital copying era.
Most of the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit songs are pushing 30 years old. Their songs have already hit their peak popularity and will only be declining from now on.
This along with AI generated music flooding the market. An AI generated song has already been #1 on the iTunes Charts. AI generated music is only going to get better and more popular.
Future TV shows/movies/etc. will likely just be generating their own music, rather than paying royalties for "hit songs".
Mixtape (game) clearly shows the power of and demand for familiar songs. See also: wedding receptions.
People don’t want just want “song sound good enough.” They have connections to specific bands/artists. Music is like…50% about the song, 50% about the memories associated with the band/album/song.
Random AI generated stuff…call me old fashioned, but I just don’t think it’ll make real music by real people go out of fashion.
I picked up Cyberpunk again recently. It's gotten me curious about how the music for the game was developed. They have something like a dozen in-universe radio stations, which each has a handful of original songs.
> Most of the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit songs are pushing 30 years old. Their songs have already hit their peak popularity and will only be declining from now on.
Bach is still hot some 300 years later.
> An AI generated song has already been #1 on the iTunes Charts.
That's a good resaon enough to cancel your subscription.
I do get your point. They're taking the retirement package. The world officially sucks one bit more now. RHCP selling off, AI music.
Hey, at least the Rolling Stones are on tour again. Jagger is 82 and still dope.
This is one of the reasons we can't have proper soundtracks in video games or non AAA TV shows anymore or re-releases of old TV-shows anymore.
I just feel bad for all the pension fonds backing this Bain Capital PE joint venture who will have an off chance of making back their investments with the current state of IP and AI trends.
Based on the era when RHCP was the most popular, I would guess that PE people buying the RHCP catalog plan to license it to advertisers for just about everything as Gen-X people age into the 60+ demographic and retirement. You can expect to see RHCP music in adult diaper and "help I've fallen and I can't get up" commercials in the future.
Only if the talent pool was restricted or if they also hold the distribution keys. Unfortunately, anyone can buy a $300 guitar and become a master, given time and commitment. This can then be used to influence AI into cleaning up your sloppy playing and off-tempo. Possibly even creating entirely new sounds from it (midi?) and then anyone can create a signature sound and model a band or music group around that motif.
Nobody is stopping anyone from buying a USB-C powered and connected very portable 2 or 4 slot external NVMe enclosures.
The old SATA SSD form factor is dead and wont come back.
OWC ThunderBlades exist, but 32TB will set you back 9 grand.
You should be able to assemble something with USB-C for under 5k.
That's not a mass consumer market thing, but perfectly doable, if your use case warrants it.
We are stuck with 2021 pricing, but now with options of 8TB per NVMe drive at way higher speed.
36TB+ HHD external WD drive combos were always around EUR 1000 over last 5 years. With a short low end around EUR 600 in 2023
>Nobody is stopping anyone from buying a USB-C powered and connected very portable 2 or 4 slot external NVMe enclosures.
That's more expensive than buying a single large capacity drive. It's also a terrible idea. I would never trust a low cost chinese controller with terabytes of my data.
>The old SATA SSD form factor is dead and wont come back.
I will not miss the awful, half-duplex protocol that never should have won over SAS. I just wish that PCIe switches and cheaper eMMC/UFS flash on M.2 were available for more flexible and cost effective storage options.
Yeah, the problem is most consumer motherboards don't come with that many PCIe lanes. Building storage servers for home use with M.2 SSDs is just not feasible.
PCIe is a switched protocol. We ought to have had better options to make better use of the limited lanes by now. There are a few cards with switches that can give you multiple M.2 slots on x4, but that's only with gen3, which the latest GPUs won't init on, and trying to cable that is hell. Better PCIe switch options for external enclosures exist, but aren't available to mortals that I've seen.
You were not are renter in 2021 when NVMe were same price as now by TB,
stuff is just becoming more expensive on market shortages.
Last half year ate up three to four years of earlier price regression, that's about it.
As long as this plateaus here, as prices did for last 4 months, that's just the new equilibrium where it has the chance to get better again, would no be all doom and gloom about personal computing yet.
The dollar is losing value, we cant hit equilibrium, it will always cost more dollars. And that is assuming the mfg are not price maximizing (they are).
At this scale, this sound like some insider joke contract made up only to make some hustle on the side capitalizing with stock options on the possibility of adhoc news trading bots glitching out on the keyword, here "x.com/sama" signals.
Even if nothing substantial come out of this,
having shortest paths to the corpus of all human expressions in all languages! and media formats is quite something by itself, what could be the ultimate hard information retrieval tool is hiding those trace behind untracked convolutions is the real shame here. Found so much real information in between less and less hallucinations already that was impossible to retrieve otherwise in that time frame.
Basically tokenrank kills pagerank.
Like the price point and portability of the base Treedix testers.
Talking about near perfect wishlist:
Some standard hardware with fail-safe power connections
a set of fully wired ports like in display-less Treedix USB platine tester version.
On the other side powered and extended diagnostics through USB-C can then be done from any smartphone or pc providing the display and updateable extended software layer.
Bonus for connectivity to some brother label printers.
