And, to the extent that money does go into these tasks per se, I’d bet that the spending is extremely imbalanced in the opposite way to what they assume: I’d bet way more money gets spent on tabular learning, ‘robotic process automation’, spreadsheet tooling, and so on than gets spent on Jukebox-like full music generation. (Certainly I skim a lot more of the former on Arxiv.) It’s telling that the big new music generation thing, almost 3 years after Jukebox is… someone jankily finetuning Stable Diffusion on ‘images’ of music lol. Not exactly what one would call an activefield of research.
So there is a relevant degree of freedom where you can ~A C C E L E R A T E~ - it’s just the wrong one from what they want.
And, to the extent that money does go into these tasks per se, I’d bet that the spending is extremely imbalanced in the opposite way to what they assume: I’d bet way more money gets spent on tabular learning, ‘robotic process automation’, spreadsheet tooling, and so on than gets spent on Jukebox-like full music generation. (Certainly I skim a lot more of the former on Arxiv.) It’s telling that the big new music generation thing, almost 3 years after Jukebox is… someone jankily finetuning Stable Diffusion on ‘images’ of music lol. Not exactly what one would call an active field of research.
So there is a relevant degree of freedom where you can ~A C C E L E R A T E~ - it’s just the wrong one from what they want.