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Why Radio Is Making A Comeback & The AI Influence
- Thread starter Buddy Shula
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I come across so many AI inaccuracies that I have just accepted it as the norm for now. It's weird that AI couldn't pick up on the fact that this is an active website and domain name.... something as simple as that.
BTW, I won't be stepping into a Waymo anytime soon after what happened in SF with the power outage. YIKES!
As mentioned in another thread, my AI "example of caution" came when searching for back issues or information on a radio and TV service magazine that published in the 1950's... apparently early 1950's. Google's AI told me the magazine was published by David Gleason (my full name) and owned by www.worldradiohistory.com. Of course, in the early 50's I was not even 10 years old, and no "dot com's" existed in that period.
Some more thoughts on this:
Back in the early 50s, many of the people who eventually created the technologies that make up the Internet in the 70s and 80s were only just being born. None of these concepts existed, and it was a good decade or two before anything even vaguely resembling them did.
There were some interesting Science Fiction ideas and concepts that resembled in principle what we would now call cellphones and personal computers as far back as the mid 60s (Star Trek, for example), but very little of it can be directly linked to what we now call the Internet in any literal sense.
That said, the idea of intelligent "living machines" is not new; some of my most favorite hints of what is only just now beginning are the "Nomad" probe in the Star Trek episode "The Changeling" (I think), the similar but more developed "V'ger" of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and, of course, HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
To me, both are excellent examples of what can happen when intelligent machines break down and start hallucinating. Current forms of "artificial intelligence" don't yet have the capabilities of these homicidal SciFi creations, and I hope it never happens (indeed, I don't really see this modern form of "AI" becoming particularly murderous unto itself ā it's too stupid! ā but, like all technology can under the right conditions, it will likely become an effective weapon for murderous humans.
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Back in the early 50s, many of the people who eventually created the technologies that make up the Internet in the 70s and 80s were only just being born. None of these concepts existed, and it was a good decade or two before anything even vaguely resembling them did.
There were some interesting Science Fiction ideas and concepts that resembled in principle what we would now call cellphones and personal computers as far back as the mid 60s (Star Trek, for example), but very little of it can be directly linked to what we now call the Internet in any literal sense.
That said, the idea of intelligent "living machines" is not new; some of my most favorite hints of what is only just now beginning are the "Nomad" probe in the Star Trek episode "The Changeling" (I think), the similar but more developed "V'ger" of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and, of course, HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
To me, both are excellent examples of what can happen when intelligent machines break down and start hallucinating. Current forms of "artificial intelligence" don't yet have the capabilities of these homicidal SciFi creations, and I hope it never happens (indeed, I don't really see this modern form of "AI" becoming particularly murderous unto itself ā it's too stupid! ā but, like all technology can under the right conditions, it will likely become an effective weapon for murderous humans.
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The syndicated Armstrong and Getty show has a producer, Mike Hanson, who produces great new jungles and songs every show for listeners. Hanson says it takes less than 5 minutes to produce these jungles using AI. Iām amazed how good the singing, instrumentals, and jokes are. The hosts discuss their concern that many radio jobs could be lost because of this technology. I think AI might turn out better for creative entertainment than for factual gathering where it seems wrong a lot.
It goes back even further. One of my favorite books is called "Armageddon 2419" by Philip Francis Nowlan...the seminal "Buck Rogers" story. Really a collection of stories that launched the legendary character, and when I went back and re-read it awhile back, it had some alarmingly prescient predictions. What was called an "ultra phone" was a near dead-on description of a flip phone. When Rogers (not yet called "Buck") infiltrated the cities of the Han (Chinese) who'd taken over America, he found a society that lived through the wall-sized screens in their apartments...watching content, ordering goods delivered to their door and paying for everything electronically. The "IT guys" were the indispensable, elite members of society who kept all the technology working. All of this was imagined in (IIRC) 1929 by the author.
Of course, there's a lot of stuff in the novel that didn't pan out, but it's still pretty fascinating on a number of levels.
As far as AI and how it affects radio, I can't pretend to have all (or even any) of the answers, but since leaving the business, I've been working in the tech industry in the autonomous vehicle space. First with robo taxis and now with autonomous delivery robots. I've said this here before and I'll say it again...most of the people I work with are younger millennials and Gen Z, and none of them have any use for "the radio." For them, the thing in the middle of their car's dashboard isn't "the radio." It's the infotainment, and they stream almost all of their music and content. When I mention what I used to do for a living they say something like "cool...my mom/dad used to listen to the radio."
I got interviewed by Jammin' Jeff Scott (AKA: RadioDJ Dude on Youtube) about using AI on my little internet radio station.
I use 32 AI voices on-air, including DJs, on-air contributors, newsreaders and reporters.
I use 32 AI voices on-air, including DJs, on-air contributors, newsreaders and reporters.
Yes, we are using it, and how many times has this board been filled with inaccuracies, speculation, and untruths ? A lot. That is why it seems to be slowing down
I should have rephrased this. Social Media is slowing down, and becoming less and less real. There is nothing on social media that people donāt say themselves āis that fakeā? Itās becoming like the National Enquirer. Fun to read, but not necessarily factual
I think the term 'enshittification' applies to social media. Radio adopted this model long before Cory Doctorow coined the phrase.