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Great read Frank. My wife wrote something on similar lines recently but focused on artistic creativity.

https://vibes.starlite-campbell.com/p/ai-a-tool-or-a-thief

Much love from Portugal.

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Thanks Simon, I'll check out your wife's piece. Looks interesting.

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Cool.

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Not being a programmer, I had never considered that "every line of code represents an ethical and moral decision." But I do tell my students they should consider whether their compositions are worthy of lasting 300 years, a la Mozart, Beethoven, Bach et al.

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Well, Mozart potentially was something of a programmer, if he was the authour of the Musikalisches Würfelspiel system. It's interesting to think that concepts of generative music, even artificial intelligence, were present in the culture even then.

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Yeah I'm sure composers have been scheming composition methods since Day One, LOL. I once wrote a song "backwards" because I thought of the last bar first. I finished the melody by writing each preceding phrase until I arrived at the beginning.

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Great idea!

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The oversight, regulation and reflection are all very warranted. Like you, I'm attracted about the potential uses of this technology for artists. Unlike you I'm not a developer but I'm very intrigued by how these models could assist non-programmers wanting to experiment in the space.

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Thanks for your comment Mark. Have you tried using an LLM for any ideas yet? I’m curious to know about people’s experiences with the technology.

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Dom, I've experimented just a few times with ChatGPT assisting me to write Processing code, and it actually seemed to give me reasonable results. The process does help me understand the code better. I do plan to continue this process again in the future.

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Hi Mark, interesting to know, thanks. I hope it leads you to good things.

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Electricity problem, solved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IojqOMWTgv8

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Even if we had a limitless supply of energy through some process like fission, one has to ask with technologies like blockchain and LLMs: is there not a more efficient design?

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