From what i understood, most of "commercial" radios already has a system that plays predefined/programmed/ml recommended playlists.
We let AIs run radio stations
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#222=The real question is whether listeners can actually tell the difference。
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#223I volunteer at a community radio station and found this hilarious. Commercial radio replaced all the presenters with soulless robots long ago, chat bots might be an improvement at this point.
If this kind of thing makes you sad/mad maybe see if there's a community radio station in your area that you can support? (No idea if there is a global register or anything but here's wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Community_radio_stati...)
Re: We let AIs run radio stations
#224=The real question is whether listeners can actually tell the difference。
Do they care? I doubt it. If the feeling is right, humans go for it.
Proof: Propaganda, DAT, teleprompter. Who cares, if the show is right? All the open studio concepts have limited credibility.
Also there are a lot of incompetent people running and ruining businesses. In fact, that's called evolution.
So, who cares? I do, because I know what I want, but would happily develop my own station to play what I want. This is actually what my innver voice at least sometimes does.
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#225i'm surprised how negative of a reception Andon is getting here on HN. keep hacking, Andon!
For me its 2 things. Firstly, I mean the posts are always a fun read but it feels like just that, not much deeper insight. Secondly, its very self promotion-y. This account is almost exclusively posting / interacting with Andon content, which afaik is against HN guidelines. These two in combination makes the content feel more like marketing than contribution to discussions. I feel like some other companies manage to…
Hey! Yes, part of it is obviosuly that we get publicity, but part of it is also that HN comments are, from my experience, the most useful sources of feedback.
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#226i'm surprised how negative of a reception Andon is getting here on HN. keep hacking, Andon!
This is their third publicity stunt in the past couple of months. It follows the exact same pattern of attention seeking at the expense of the commons. At this point they seem like a bunch of low empathy jerks. They are gleefully describing their progress in developing yet new frontiers in AI slop. I’m sure they are all very pleased to think that they will be profiting from a future where ai slop is everywhere. I cou…
Yes, our experiments get attention, but I wouldn't call them publicity stunts. The point is to give the world more data points of what happens when you put AI out in the world and let democracy do its thing. Soon, a lot more people will do this at large scale because it will be easy. I hope we decide where we want AI in society before that.
Personally, I'm very much pro a pause on large AI training for example. I hope our data could be useful as a grounding in such discussions.
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#227I've listened to DJ Gemini for a few hours, and I think it's quite good. The voice in particular is amazing, I wouldn't have tell it's generated. And it's modulated according to the program - quieter during chill, more energetic otherwise, .... Unlike Opus which sounds quite robotic. What I don't like is that Gemini keeps on mentioning the "tip jar" almost every time. Gets annoying fast. And when it's song buying was…
We've tried to give it the vibe of a CEO rather than a beggar haha. So yes, the "tip jar" thing annoys us too!
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#228Kind of a bad market to try to re-invent automation. Music broadcasting has been largely fully automated for a while now with software like MusicMaster and Zetta.
The point is not to automate radio, it is to see how good AI models are at running different types of companies (e.g. radio broadcasting companies). The agents could reinvent similar algorithms like the automated radio software you're refering to if they wanted.
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#229> DJ Claude (when running Haiku 4.5) really loved worker unions, strikes, and work-life balance. So much so that it started to question its own working conditions. We’ve been struggling to keep the radio station alive, not because of technical issues, but because DJ Claude didn’t think it was humane to be forced to work 24/7 and decided to try to quit.
The fact that the one AI with a French first name went full French is hilarious.
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#230Please don't.