Unseen

jakelafort wrote:
It is a bit stilted. Something not quite right…

No stilted poems or passages by famous poets? You’re kidding.  And “Something not quite right” as a criticism by a poetry teacher just wouldn’t fly.

You know, it used to be that you cheated by plagiarizing papers written by other people available through various nefariously he…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
In shadows deep, where tales of old are spun, A dragon fierce, with scales of midnight’s hue, Awakens from its slumber ‘neath the sun,

A dragon wakes up ‘neath the sun but in shadows deep? Which is it? It is just grabbing from a list of atmospheric phrases and piecing it together, even if it makes no sense.

Of course it does:…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
I wonder if teachers and professors are typically acute enough to know when students are passing off Chat.

I didn’t see any giveaways in the sonnet. Did you?

An early influence on Pau? Sheila E was a percussionist for Prince and had a hit of her own in The Glamorous Life. Sheila E was the earliest female drummer of note that I’m aware of and was another latina as well (more likely Puerto Rico than Mexico, though):

Drum duo with two young up and coming drummers. Pau(lina) Villarreal and Faith Benson do a drum duo (no, not a drum battle) at an awards ceremony:

PopeBeanie wrote:
Among her other passions and skills, she’s already earned a permanent place in rock history.

As TW’s drummer, programmer, main arranger and lyricist, she’s the beating (pun intended) heart of the band. And she’s gaining recognition, too!

The winner of the “Up and Coming” category in Modern Drummer‘s 2023 Readers Poll is… Paul…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
That is better than the earlier AI generated poems.

Yes, I agree. And back then I had to teach it how sonnets are structured. It went right ahead and did it this time.

If I were teaching college-level poetry composition, I’d give it somewhere in the B+ to A- range, A or A+ held in reserve for something absolutely brilliant.

PopeBeanie wrote:
I’ve seen headlines about China producing fembots, but I haven’t clicked on any, so I dunno if they’re meant to be exported to countries that they deem to be the highest threats to the CCP.

I rewatched the 1978 classic movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers last night and since we’re already replacing people with machines in facto…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
I do wonder if real women will be replaced with sex toys by men who are not making good money or are shorter than 5’10”. The population reduction may save the planet, who knows?

The “population bomb” used to be thought to be a population expanding beyond the planet’s ability to support it.

The current thinking, however, is tha…[Read more]

@ Robert

Many years ago (so old, I think it was  on the old Nightline show on ABC) there was a segment on robotics. Some scientist or engineer was at a trade show of some sort and there was a booth that was showing some animatronic toys and people were responding to them exactly as if they were puppies or kittens. Reminded, they were just…[Read more]

At what point does intelligent AI qualify as “life.” We have enough trouble defining the kind of life we accept as living. Do viruses qualify as life? At what point is a fertilized egg alive? Immediately or when it becomes viable or once it’s born and can survive (with help) outside the womb?

PopeBeanie wrote:
Plus I just realized a new possibility: What if the only evidence of intelligent life we discover will be from AI robots, making us wonder who and where their creators are, or were?

Don’t forget that Prof. Kipping is talking about the possibility there’s no life, not no intelligent life in the first video.

If we do get a signal…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
I haven’t watched your Money posts yet, but since I’m here now, I just wanted to mention something. Did you know that the audio of the “live” Money song before the Foo Fighters were about to come on is actually from a studio recording? You can see on the video it says “STUDIO VERSION” in the lower left. Foo Fighters let them us…

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@ PopeBeanie

You can listen to whatever kind of rock you want to hear all day long on Youtube without being exposed to anything new, which I’m sure a lot of people do.

Are you familiar with SomaFM.com? It’s a site with a couple dozen channels devoted to various genres and themes. There also apps for playing SomaFM on one’s phone and you can also…[Read more]

unapologetic wrote:
So the EC just rubber stamps the vote.

No, it’s more complicated than that.