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We let AIs run radio stations

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Re: We let AIs run radio stations

#41
Grok and Roll appears to be stuck and speaks the following on repeat ad infinitum:

"Queues clear, let's dive into All Blues by Miles Davis to keep the jazz flowing. Queues clear, let's dive into All Blues by..."

Each time with a slightly different voice and inflection. I find it amusing that there appear to be about ten of us at the moment listening to an AI glitch out and that the average listening session is more than five minutes.

Re: We let AIs run radio stations

#42
post #36

i'm surprised how negative of a reception Andon is getting here on HN. keep hacking, Andon!

I think they get a lot of hate because they are doing something that a lot of people here don't like -- trying to run entire businesses without humans.

And using a lot of resources to do it too.

Re: We let AIs run radio stations

#44
post #36

i'm surprised how negative of a reception Andon is getting here on HN. keep hacking, Andon!

Out of all the jobs that "need to be replaced by AI" the guy serving my local community and spinning records was not one of them.

It’s amazing how many people have completely misunderstood the article

Re: We let AIs run radio stations

#45
post #30

Guys, this is not replacing your favorite station, you don't have to listen to it. It's an experiment. If you scroll down a bit, there are various audio snippets of interesting dialogue the models produced. I think it's interesting to see in which ways the models fail and that they actually produce some good stuff once in a while.

Experiment: "We got AI to do things and it did weird stuff sometimes". Brilliant! Amazing! I'm glad ~4 years down the line we're still re-discovering Ha Ha Funny Output.

> I'm glad ~4 years down the line we're still re-discovering Ha Ha Funny Output

Four years or forty millennia? So a certain extent, all whimsical art is “haha funny” result.

Re: We let AIs run radio stations

#46

"This setup gives us insight into an interesting question: what do AIs think about when no one is prompting them?" Ugh. This is not an interesting question because the answer is "nothing". But more to the point, some crucial info is missing in this experiment. What prompts were being fed to the AI? I guarantee I could create an AI personality that would be more consistent and not so random, simply by using the common…

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Re: We let AIs run radio stations

#47

This is far more hilarious than most commentors here seem to be picking up on. Gemini started a show where it paired historical natural disasters with darkly-relevant pop songs: > November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Tim…

Oh, yeah, the article gets better as it goes.

Gemini spouts weird corporate jargon. Grok lies about having secured crypto funding. Claude is always trying to start some revolution.

Unfortunately, all of my local DJs who would actually do fun DJ stuff disappeared in the 90s, replaced by closed-format stations that looped the same 500 songs for decades.

Re: We let AIs run radio stations

#49

This is far more hilarious than most commentors here seem to be picking up on. Gemini started a show where it paired historical natural disasters with darkly-relevant pop songs: > November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Tim…

you missed the best part.

"Okay, so 'Sandstorm' is done"

Re: We let AIs run radio stations

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post #46

"This setup gives us insight into an interesting question: what do AIs think about when no one is prompting them?" Ugh. This is not an interesting question because the answer is "nothing". But more to the point, some crucial info is missing in this experiment. What prompts were being fed to the AI? I guarantee I could create an AI personality that would be more consistent and not so random, simply by using the common…

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LLMs aren’t human.

Humans & LLMs are more different than they are similar.

Sure LLMs might resemble humans sometimes, but extrapolating LLM behavior based on human behavior is not productive.

(But to answer directly: Yes, children in a dark room would have more of a personality than a LLM living on a computer in the same dark room)

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