hot take, maybe, but a chatbot that can act as a session musician to jam with would actually be useful to me.

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

hot take, maybe, but a chatbot that can act as a session musician to jam with would actually be useful to me. probably one of the better use cases honestly for chat as a user interface, because it is easier to just describe what you want than twiddle a bunch of knobs (and ML can provide some level of entropy/improvisation)

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

unfortunately, instead of that, the offerings on the market are basically advertising jingle generation as a service

which is … fine i guess. advertising rarely has soul anyway.

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

actually my dad researched ML-based jamming buddies back the 90s, but LLMs didn’t exist yet, so it had some really cursed Tcl/Tk frontend with knobs to tune the algorithm’s output.

and it was limited by the state of MIDI in the 90s