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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” (musictech.com)

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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds cool, I've had roles that were heavy on data cleansing, although never on something so interesting. What languages / frameworks are used for transforming the data, I understand if you can't go into too much detail.

I did wonder how much software engineers contribute in the field, it's the scientists doing the really interesting stuff when it comes to AI? Not surprisingly I guess 😂

I'm a full stack engineer, I was thinking of getting into contracting, now I'm not so sure, I don't know enough about AI's potential coding capabilities to know whether I should be concerned about job security in the short, or long term.

Getting involved in AI in some capacity seems like a smart move though...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We do a lot of orchestration of closed environments, so that we can access critical data without worry of leaks. We use Spark and Scala for most of our applications, with step functions and custom EC2 instances to host our environments. This way, we build verticals that can scale with the amount of data we process.

If I'm perfectly honest, I don't know how smart a move it is, considering our org just went through layoffs. We're popular right now, but who knows how long for.

It can be interesting at times, but to be honest if I were really interested in it, I would go back and get my PhD so I could actually contribute. Sometimes, it feels like SWE's are support roles, and science managers only really care that we are unblocking scientists from their work. They rarely give a shit if we release anything cool.