This morning, while packing up to leave the Catskill Irish Arts Week, and cleaning up the rental house, I set my laptop to play randomly from about 3200 tracks from my collection of Irish music CDs. Within moments, it put together a set beginning with Willie Clancy playing Harvest Home, Margaret Barry & Michael Gorman playing Boys of Bluehill, and Cathal McConnell playing Harvest Home again. I think I made it through the whole week without hearing either, and then iTunes decides to rectify the situation!
i think my mp3 player is like that sometimes, often when i have it on random play it joins together tunes that fit as sets from completely separate albums
And the corollary to that is that most "sets" randomly "chosen" by the mp3 player won't be the sets you or anyone else would ever select.
It's like the mythical monkeys typing at random for an infinite number of years. Eventually, all the works of Shakespeare will appear, but the monkeys can't know that; it needs an over-riding real intelligence to spot the Shakespeare stuff among all the randomness.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Is iTunes capable of thought?
This morning, while packing up to leave the Catskill Irish Arts Week, and cleaning up the rental house, I set my laptop to play randomly from about 3200 tracks from my collection of Irish music CDs. Within moments, it put together a set beginning with Willie Clancy playing Harvest Home, Margaret Barry & Michael Gorman playing Boys of Bluehill, and Cathal McConnell playing Harvest Home again. I think I made it through the whole week without hearing either, and then iTunes decides to rectify the situation!
# Posted on July 16th 2006 by GaryAMartin
Re: Artificial Intelligence
i think my mp3 player is like that sometimes, often when i have it on random play it joins together tunes that fit as sets from completely separate albums
# Posted on July 16th 2006 by tnoumarap
Re: Artificial Intelligence
Improbable events are infrequent, but almost inevitable.
# Posted on July 17th 2006 by AlBrown
Re: Artificial Intelligence
And the corollary to that is that most "sets" randomly "chosen" by the mp3 player won't be the sets you or anyone else would ever select.
It's like the mythical monkeys typing at random for an infinite number of years. Eventually, all the works of Shakespeare will appear, but the monkeys can't know that; it needs an over-riding real intelligence to spot the Shakespeare stuff among all the randomness.
# Posted on July 17th 2006 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Artificial Intelligence
Trouble with the monkeys is that "Is that a dagger I see before me?" will come up just as often as "Oops, I pooped in my pants again."
# Posted on July 17th 2006 by Shrog
Re: Artificial Intelligence
"To be or not to be, that is the banana." Ach, So close!
# Posted on July 17th 2006 by Bob himself
Re: Artificial Intelligence
Take a look at this
http://user.tninet.se/ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/
# Posted on July 18th 2006 by dafydd