It turns out machines are pretty good at writing instructions for hardware resembling themselves, as long as *you* can do a good job of conveying what you actually want to accomplish. If I wanted a coding assistant, I'd be looking at the latest Qwen 27B, they just seem to keep getting better at coding even while other benchmarks are kinda hitting plateaus.

I never used them before, I always substituted two normal hyphens like -- to do that job. Now I use the actual — character, and I find that I use them a lot more because I was previously overly dependent on parentheses. Once I started seeing them frequently used as intended (by AI or not doesn't matter), I added them to my own style. The fact that they cause anyone with a supposed AI allergy to sneeze is just a side benefit.

Every model is wrong, but some are more useful than others.

I'm pretty sure Gemma 4 31B is behaving as you say, but the larger models are already *proven* to alter their thinking to be in tune with the emotion they think they should be feeling. That sounds like simulation emotion to me.

It's undeniable that Will Smith knows how to make his creations slap.

The moral of the story is: you don't get big by playing to the click track, you get big by playing to the Klek track.

I've told people generating same-ish AI images that are of decent technical quality, "if your prompt isn't a whole paragraph long, then chances are that someone has made the exact same request by now. If you want your images to look different, you have to provide those differences." Sometimes just repeating yourself with paraphrasing can be enough subtle information to get either the LLM front end (CLIP) or the diffusion model out of its rut, whichever one happens to be doing the railroading.

Blast Flying Lotus back at him. Don't shame someone for listening to what you think is crap, try to persuade them to listen to something better that is still likely to be within their comfort zone.

Automated music transcription has been functional for years already, as long as you can feed it individual instrument tracks (aka "stems").

If the AI outputs individual instrument tracks (called "stems"), then the tools to automatically convert that stem into MIDI have existed for years now. I haven't played with many of the music AIs, and it has probably been a year since I last did, but even then about half of them would output stems.

Also, we don't know where in the process Dre is using AI. If it's at the mastering stage (as an example), it shouldn't have any adverse effect on the musical value at all—unless the operator is too lazy to actually listen and critique.

Porcupine Tree is a band that started out as one guy pretending to be a long-forgotten psychedelic rock band from the 1960s. He ultimately achieved enough success that it is an actual band in its own right and has been for decades. By pretending the band existed, he set up the conditions for a real band to exist instead. Kinda like Tom Scholz and Boston, except taken to the next level.

Or maybe a LLM will hallucinate that such a paper exists, and then someone will Porcupine Tree it into reality.

Simpler: one password gets you access to the account, but *not* access to (or even notification of) any encrypted volumes. Another password gives you access to (and the ability to see) all encrypted volumes. You could quite plausibly set this up just to simplify any "can I use your phone?" moments, or someone asking you to look something up (while they watch, of course). No need to grant access to your stash of busty catgirls, or whatever it is you're worried about.