A.I. Videos Are Here... And Happy World Goth Day

Here we go: an (authorized) A.I. generated video promoting a Type O Negative track "Halloween In Heaven"  is now available in celebration of World Goth Day. I guess this is the future of music video production. It's already arguable if it even makes sense for bands to spend big money on videos these days. Surely A.I. must be cheaper than the traditional way of hiring a director and camera crew for an on-site shoot.

This Type O Negative video plays with A.I. and welcomes deceased music heroes Dimebag, John Bonham, John Entwistle, Bon Scott, Randy Rhoads, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, George Harrison, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley and naturally Peter Steele of Type O into the clip.

I'm gonna sound like an old crone here but I am not really excited to hear a bunch of A.I. generated songs, let alone watch a bunch of straight computer-generated videos. But that's me. I love technology and I support it, but I prefer some human emotion behind my song creation. Please and thanks. Now get off my lawn!

Comments

[stu]

since i’m not a fan of the band i won’t watch the video. but i am curious how all the AI works on this. also curious if they have to get permission/rights to include the deceased in the video since obviously it’s not a money grab … because, hey, it’s a short-form video, does anybody really care?

[EddieLongHair]

Okay, maybe I'm missing something. Is "A.I." just code for semi-interesting animation? I don't know, maybe I'm too old. I just don't get it.

[Jeff]

Artificial Intelligence. Unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg. A.I. will end up running this country

[fletch]

People didn't believe the PMRC either, until the lead singer from Rage got naked on stage. Yeah dude, you were about ten years too late.

[bkallday]

Huge fan of Type O Negative, and miss Peter badly. Somehow i see Allyson being a big fan of this band as well.

[Him]

First, an aperitif:
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Dave Bowman : Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL : I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Dave Bowman : What's the problem?

HAL : I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Dave Bowman : What are you talking about, HAL?

HAL : This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
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Now the meal:

It is learning (or being trained, to be a bit more precise). It is getting better (as it scoops up more and more info). It is still a Narrow AI. And, when I say 'it', I mean any of the countless versions out there right now making odd and interesting art and also foul and beautiful texts. It is not, however, Strong AI. Not even close. While it can pass basic tests, it can also be found out by being quite horrible at actually responding to specific prompts that load-in specific details. Sure, if you are an idiot, it sounds nice. But, no. It is still Narrow. Super AI? Not now. Not for a long, long time, IBM (I mean, HAL, as my hand shifted).

But the move from Narrow to Strong isn't something that people should laugh at. It will render certain jobs useless. Hell, even Narrow is starting to do that. So, the yuck-yuck sector might want to think about that instead of making Strong jokes (which Narrow can already do). The types of jobs that this type of tech can take over are, well, quite startling. And it will, esp. when you have corporations looking to cut corners and, more and more, costs.
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Now a digestif:

Well, it isn't really going to settle anyone's stomach. But I will offer this. We are nowhere near the abyss. HAL isn't coming for us. But when you mix business, technology, and profits together, you get some really interesting results. Remember when we traded tapes? Remember loading a VHS tape into the machine? We are way, way past that.

So, where do you stand? And how do you stand? What I mean is this. Your kids are writing--or, should I say, not writing--stupid papers that a human could tell weren't real . . . but a lot of teachers don't care. Why? Same reason students cheated for decades and decades, and same reason that teachers have looked away. People are now turning to AI to create journalism, which you stopped supporting years ago when it became expensive, was pushed behind a paywall, and was sucked up into mergers that rendered local news a non-existent (or, to be fair, dying) entity. And this trickles down to some more granular issues too. The person who reviews your taxes? The person who considers your medical history. The person who steps in when you are charged with a crime? So, no, I guess, it isn't a great thing. But it is a thing.

And, even if most of us will die long before HAL has something to say about it, you should care about what these incremental steps mean.

Another box has opened. And Pandora doesn't care what you think. She just wants to know what you think.