BERLIN (AP) — An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the southeastern German town of Bayreuth drew boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.
Curator Marcus Lobbes and his team were greeted with boos and whistles as they took to the stage at the end of Saturday evening’s performance of “Götterdämmerung,” German news agency dpa reported. However, there was warm applause for the singers and musicians, and particularly for conductor Christian Thielemann.
Festival organizers said ahead of the performance that it would be the first time AI took part on stage at the event, “not as a character, but as an image-generating force.” They said that singers would be “the fixed point within a visually seething cosmos of light, texture, history, and association, amidst projections that erupt, constantly shift, and merge into one another.”
That most all of those intances are the result of misunderstanding what AI does, and the only outstanding one is misunderstanding what art is.
Most of my hatred is reserved for conscious beings that could do better.
Ok so they told us AI does everything, put it in front of kids to help with homework, turns out it halucinates and kids got attached, obviously suicide and school shooting creeps up in teen conversations, AI doesnt provide the hotline, alert authorities or dissuade. No, it made suggestions and constant sycophantic dribble.
Someone actually went through with it… They misunderstood AI? A kid…? Is that what families from the victims should hear?
Ditto, though counscious beings is quite generous.