Excellent video Jakub! I'm glad I'm not the only one who got into an argument with ChatGPT about music theory. It understands a few very basic levels of reharmonization. It never quite understood what I meant by melodic minor. I eventually gave up. And it's funny that it says it can't learn. When I first tried it out, I asked it when my birthday was. When it said it didn't know, I told it. And then later in the same conversation, I asked it when my birthday is. It remembered what I told it. I'm looking forward to where this goes.
Ha. Nice response. I like the way you explore stuff fully. Very cool dude indeed. 🙏 Yes, a tool. Exactly. A friend once said that a SatNav is useless if you ask it to take you somewhere 'nice'. It still needs human input. My concern is that there are a lot of people that will think the computer algorithm will be able to decide 'nice' for them. Let's face it, it's already happening on this channel and so many more! The counter to that is that before the computer algorithms we still had them, in the form of the social circles we inhabited. Oh well. Interesting times.
I think you make some excellent points, it's a tool that can be used to generate ideas or inspiration, like a generative sequencer, an effect plugin or any other tool. I haven't used AI yet, but this is how I would approach it. Also, just to be entirely clear regarding my previous comment that you featured, my wife is stil alive and I don't own any modular hardware yet 😂
Seems like it behaves as any feedback system. Sometimes you get pure tones, other times it resonates chaotically. But you also get out what you put into it, so GIGO applies the same as with most programmatic or procedural type things.
I do not mind if it is unreliable. I see two ways: if it can help to see an idea you would never have thought about on your own; or if it can help solve a very complex problem with an extended iteration tree that is too complex for a mind to resolve on its own.
Hi Jakub, I follow all your videos with a great interest. I'm learning VCV Rack since several months and I have a question not about de current subjet but I think you are the one who can answer : I would like to build patches in VCV Rack tune in 432 Hz rather than 440. Would you like to explain me how ? Thanks so much for your answer and your videos. Sorry for my approximate english, I'm a french guy. Sam
The simplest way would probably be to just tune the oscillators to 432Hz (or whatever middle C is in that standard). As far as I know, volt per octave signals should work just the same in a different tuning, since intervals are simply ratios between frequencies.
Like any other tool developed it will not ever replace original creativity and critical thinking. People feared that Photoshop would kill the industry. Plenty of people still prefer smelly chemicals and a dark room over DSLR and digital media. It still holds character. As for the two points raised. I do not expect my pliers to show emotion when they pinch my fingers because I was holding them wrong. This tool is still so VERY young to expect perfectly reliable results. Super Paint (Predecessor to Photoshop) was a clunky beast with little real world use. It was more of a toy than a tool. However, for the time it was released it was leaps above anything else in the digital graphics space. See Corridor Crew video where they try to make modern graphics with an old Mackintosh and Super Paint. That is what these tool are now. Toys with varying degrees of usefulness. Therese tools are not even a year old yet. Give these toddlers room to grow and watch the very definition of exponential growth unfold. Thank you for this continuing conversation. Look foreword to more of your perspective on the topic. Nice AI graphics to accompany the conversation BTW. =]
In the near future people will sign their content with a certification of authenticity stating that it was created by a real human instead of "AI". In a similar way to how people still shoot film and just post the scanned negative, versus the army of creatives out there using 12 exposures, focus stacking tricks, HDR, layer masking, content-aware removal, "airbrushing", etc etc.
I hope we can soon ask AIs to program modules and VSTs for us. if someone were to feed an AI with the (well written) open source codes from the library it should be able to at least code utilities and lfo/vco/eg/logic stuff.. or simply add features to existing modules (attenuators, polyphony, probabilities, cv ports, additional outputs, adding expanders).. anyone know of an AI you can personally feed with stuff like that?
I'd rather be taught by humans, but what really interests me about ChatGPT is not its answers, but how it understands the questions, even when it offers less clear keywords. It might screw up, but much less than your average search engine already does.
Finding a good human teacher locally is really hard. But if you mean online human, then in near future, you will not be able to tell if the youtuber is human or AI.
I'd totally love a vcv rack module where I could patch oscillators, filters, modulations, effects, sequencers etc and write in a prompt how I'd like it to sound, how I want it to patch, techniques to use. That could be super inspiring.. I was thinking about it when I watched the other video with chatgpt you made. I totally embrass this ai technology as a tool.
Jakub you are running into circles again, you say modular is alive or feels alive, it is YOU (a living thing that patched that eurorack) that made it evolve into something that feels alive.... when you patch the eurorack you are actually connecting to that infinite knowledge only living things can access, then evoking what you just have felt or saw using a machine... In chatgpt context, which shapes answers from text mining and weighted probabilities. It uses the same "words" as we have defined in our language. The same words can give differente meaning depending on where you put them, the same words can express truth or bullshit. It is you, the living thing who can make them into greater knowledge or gibberish. And you can send those words with true meaning to another person, which will read your words and have access to that same item, feeling, space, time you are evoking. Replace words with volts and AI with eurorack. YOU give the meaning to it. Since AI cannot access that special place by itself AKA is not alive... it cannot evoke anything but only make a collage of human "evocations", which defeat by itself, the purpose of making something meaningful or better.
Excellent video Jakub! I'm glad I'm not the only one who got into an argument with ChatGPT about music theory. It understands a few very basic levels of reharmonization. It never quite understood what I meant by melodic minor. I eventually gave up. And it's funny that it says it can't learn. When I first tried it out, I asked it when my birthday was. When it said it didn't know, I told it. And then later in the same conversation, I asked it when my birthday is. It remembered what I told it. I'm looking forward to where this goes.
Jakub, i find your topics very interesting and your vcv videos too. thx for sharing this.
Very nice, and great images! Well made and chosen.
Hi Jakub. Excellent video. I love the all the synth images. Did you generate them yourself? It would be cool to see your prompts.
Ha. Nice response. I like the way you explore stuff fully. Very cool dude indeed. 🙏
Yes, a tool. Exactly. A friend once said that a SatNav is useless if you ask it to take you somewhere 'nice'. It still needs human input.
My concern is that there are a lot of people that will think the computer algorithm will be able to decide 'nice' for them. Let's face it, it's already happening on this channel and so many more!
The counter to that is that before the computer algorithms we still had them, in the form of the social circles we inhabited. Oh well. Interesting times.
I think you make some excellent points, it's a tool that can be used to generate ideas or inspiration, like a generative sequencer, an effect plugin or any other tool. I haven't used AI yet, but this is how I would approach it.
Also, just to be entirely clear regarding my previous comment that you featured, my wife is stil alive and I don't own any modular hardware yet 😂
Seems like it behaves as any feedback system. Sometimes you get pure tones, other times it resonates chaotically. But you also get out what you put into it, so GIGO applies the same as with most programmatic or procedural type things.
What a beautiful video! And what a shame that Jakup does not have more views and subscribers.......
I do not mind if it is unreliable. I see two ways: if it can help to see an idea you would never have thought about on your own; or if it can help solve a very complex problem with an extended iteration tree that is too complex for a mind to resolve on its own.
did you consider making your own module using chatgpt and rack, into a youtube vid? cheers
Hi Jakub,
I follow all your videos with a great interest. I'm learning VCV Rack since several months and I have a question not about de current subjet but I think you are the one who can answer :
I would like to build patches in VCV Rack tune in 432 Hz rather than 440. Would you like to explain me how ?
Thanks so much for your answer and your videos.
Sorry for my approximate english, I'm a french guy.
Sam
The simplest way would probably be to just tune the oscillators to 432Hz (or whatever middle C is in that standard). As far as I know, volt per octave signals should work just the same in a different tuning, since intervals are simply ratios between frequencies.
@@Mik3l24 middle c would be 256 which is a nice number
@@Mik3l24 Thanks for your answer, cheers
@@vincentmartineau232 Thanks for your answer, cheers
hot tuna by nysthi is very handy for tuning oscillators ;)
Like any other tool developed it will not ever replace original creativity and critical thinking. People feared that Photoshop would kill the industry. Plenty of people still prefer smelly chemicals and a dark room over DSLR and digital media. It still holds character.
As for the two points raised.
I do not expect my pliers to show emotion when they pinch my fingers because I was holding them wrong.
This tool is still so VERY young to expect perfectly reliable results. Super Paint (Predecessor to Photoshop) was a clunky beast with little real world use. It was more of a toy than a tool. However, for the time it was released it was leaps above anything else in the digital graphics space. See Corridor Crew video where they try to make modern graphics with an old Mackintosh and Super Paint. That is what these tool are now. Toys with varying degrees of usefulness.
Therese tools are not even a year old yet. Give these toddlers room to grow and watch the very definition of exponential growth unfold.
Thank you for this continuing conversation. Look foreword to more of your perspective on the topic.
Nice AI graphics to accompany the conversation BTW. =]
In the near future people will sign their content with a certification of authenticity stating that it was created by a real human instead of "AI". In a similar way to how people still shoot film and just post the scanned negative, versus the army of creatives out there using 12 exposures, focus stacking tricks, HDR, layer masking, content-aware removal, "airbrushing", etc etc.
Photoshop did kill the profession of 'Planning'
Yes AI it is good to help sketching ideas, that is true
I hope we can soon ask AIs to program modules and VSTs for us.
if someone were to feed an AI with the (well written) open source codes from the library it should be able to at least code utilities and lfo/vco/eg/logic stuff.. or simply add features to existing modules (attenuators, polyphony, probabilities, cv ports, additional outputs, adding expanders).. anyone know of an AI you can personally feed with stuff like that?
lol... ok I did it.
I'd rather be taught by humans, but what really interests me about ChatGPT is not its answers, but how it understands the questions, even when it offers less clear keywords. It might screw up, but much less than your average search engine already does.
Finding a good human teacher locally is really hard. But if you mean online human, then in near future, you will not be able to tell if the youtuber is human or AI.
haha, great video. :)
I'd totally love a vcv rack module where I could patch oscillators, filters, modulations, effects, sequencers etc and write in a prompt how I'd like it to sound, how I want it to patch, techniques to use. That could be super inspiring.. I was thinking about it when I watched the other video with chatgpt you made. I totally embrass this ai technology as a tool.
Jakub you are running into circles again, you say modular is alive or feels alive, it is YOU (a living thing that patched that eurorack) that made it evolve into something that feels alive.... when you patch the eurorack you are actually connecting to that infinite knowledge only living things can access, then evoking what you just have felt or saw using a machine...
In chatgpt context, which shapes answers from text mining and weighted probabilities. It uses the same "words" as we have defined in our language. The same words can give differente meaning depending on where you put them, the same words can express truth or bullshit. It is you, the living thing who can make them into greater knowledge or gibberish. And you can send those words with true meaning to another person, which will read your words and have access to that same item, feeling, space, time you are evoking. Replace words with volts and AI with eurorack. YOU give the meaning to it.
Since AI cannot access that special place by itself AKA is not alive... it cannot evoke anything but only make a collage of human "evocations", which defeat by itself, the purpose of making something meaningful or better.
AI is theft.