Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m just getting old, but I remember when there were loads of exciting new hardware and software that looked like they would be fun, helpful and genuinely useful in unlocking creativity and handing control to users instead of furthering reliance upon the technology whilst reducing those positive benefits.
They’re turning the real world into a ‘point and click’ adventure where you get to ask from an approved list of things the computer understands and then you get back a short list of optional responses if you’re lucky and you marvel at how wonderful it is that you’re paying all this money to have fewer choices decided by someone else’s code that has some nice graphics and music provided to you that distracts you from the fact you just wasted 2 hours trying to ‘open door with monkey’ when you actually had to ‘use key with door’.
Anyway, AI audio extraction like Apple has implemented in Logic is very cool, as one example. I’m not saying it’s all bad. There are good uses for it. But just because I might like ketchup in a burger, I don’t need it on a side salad, or in my milkshake, or on a birthday card, or squirted in my bosses’ faces when I’m giving a presentation. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Keep the ketchup in the bottle and let Guybrush live on in video games and my memory as a teenager, he’s happier there anyway.
They’re turning the real world into a ‘point and click’ adventure where you get to ask from an approved list of things the computer understands and then you get back a short list of optional responses if you’re lucky and you marvel at how wonderful it is that you’re paying all this money to have fewer choices decided by someone else’s code that has some nice graphics and music provided to you that distracts you from the fact you just wasted 2 hours trying to ‘open door with monkey’ when you actually had to ‘use key with door’.
Anyway, AI audio extraction like Apple has implemented in Logic is very cool, as one example. I’m not saying it’s all bad. There are good uses for it. But just because I might like ketchup in a burger, I don’t need it on a side salad, or in my milkshake, or on a birthday card, or squirted in my bosses’ faces when I’m giving a presentation. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Keep the ketchup in the bottle and let Guybrush live on in video games and my memory as a teenager, he’s happier there anyway.