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In the Thread: Accuracy vs. Musicality (and YMMV)
Post Subject: I am convinced that we need to take AI VERY seriously.Posted by rowuk on: 3/15/2026
If we only play casual chess, we can move pieces around a board and after an hour, look back and have enjoyed the side show with whoever we are playing with. If we play casually and get a really experienced competitor, the same activity becomes work and is no where near as fun. After an hour (or less) we leave, frustrated. With AI, we could get support for this type of activity and in a very primitive way, have every amateur and professional chess move ever made as well as decision making help at our fingertips. With AI help the playing field changes. We can have less work with playing chess and more fun.
AI also could help us with our playback. We can get setup help, listening suggestions and if we get some experience with how to ask questions (a skill sorely lacking), we can in fact fine tune the model to our personal preferences and speed up certain perceptual processes merely by being exposed to a (much) larger knowledge base.
Just imagine if we used AI to generate playlists to advance our music appreciation. Picking the "right" order of performances, we can incrementally develop awareness for musical structure. We could also investigate aspects of playback by getting a collection of previous human attempts at solving a problem.
I see AI as an access point to a huge database of "objects". We need to learn how to navigate, need to develop a gut level feeling for what is useful or not, need to develop a gut level feeling for attacks on our perception. For sure, there are a lot of software engineers working on perception modification. If we have no tools, we are at a distinct disadvantage. I believe that there is a "language" of AI to be learned. Skilled triggering of our senses is the current MO for many things, especially in places like YouTube or Facebook. Getting a large quantity of followers has turned into a real occupation with real financial perks. I wonder how many people actually ask themselves if "following" is the best strategy and if it is only compensation for their deficiencies.
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