An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.

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.”

  • FlashMobOfOneOP
    142·
    4 days ago

    My employer has Copilot, but the conversations about when and where we use it are always measured and we always weigh the time gained vs the time that would need to be spent validating the output. It is useful at times, like today, when I wanted to pull 200 footnotes out of a word document and into an excel sheet. I’m still going to have to check every line item, but validating will take less time than doing the work manually.

    I also work in the legal industry, so just whipping things up via sloppification isn’t realistic since screwing up has massive implications for the firm and the client.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      5·
      4 days ago

      I try to use Copilot occasionally to do easy graphics changes, and it usually does it for the first few versions, then it just stops showing the new version, even though it says “Here It Is.” I will ask for the graphic, and it says “You’re right, I didn’t show it, now I will,” and then it doesn’t. Again.

      Then it will ask to upload the original graphic again, and still doesn’t show the finished product.

      Finally, it tells me that I’ve used all my free prompts, and I have to wait for it to reset, and it can’t tell me how long that will be. When I tell it that it WASTED at least half of my free attempts, it agrees with me, and offers to keep me company while I wait for the reset, which it has no idea will take place.

      WTF?

      This is like the worst employee I’ve ever had. If CoPilot worked for me, I would fire it EVERY FUCKING DAY!

      • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        3 days ago

        AI Genie: You have three wishes.

        Person: I wish for a million dollars!

        AI Genie: Granted!

        Person: Ok. Where is it?

        AI Genie: Oh, sorry, I didn’t grant your wish. Please ask again.

        Person: I wish for a million dollars!

        AI Genie: Granted!

        Person: These look like a few old rubles. They’re worthless!

        AI Genie: Yes, you did ask for a million dollars and I gave you worthless rubles. Please wish again and I will try to do better!

        Person: I wish for a million US dollars!

        AI Genie: Granted!

        Person: This is a million-dollar bill signed by George Washington with an image of … Franklin Hubert Lincoln? This isn’t legal tender!

        AI Genie: I’m sorry, you are right. I should have understood you wanted to increase your net worth. Please wish again and I’ll get right.

        Person: I wish for a million US dollars to be deposited into my checking account!

        AI Genie: I’m sorry, you have already used all three of your wishes.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
          1·
          3 days ago

          Yeah, EXACTLY like that! Great analogy!

          At least I got invited to cuddle with the AI while I waited for the reset.

      • FlashMobOfOneOP
        5·
        4 days ago

        Yup, we don’t like it much either. :)

        The most use I get out of it is that it’s good at telling me what an application is capable of doing, so when I’m trying to solve a problem it can explain options to me that I didn’t know about beforehand, and then direct me to self-training materials. That’s what I use it for the most, at least.

    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
      4·
      4 days ago

      You might already be super familiar, but there are a lot of handy ways to arrange text using excel functions. Maybe it’s still faster to manually check AI output, as I’m not fully familiar with your use case, but text to column/transpose or the split functions may be of interest. Not trying to suggest I know for sure what a good solution is without seeing the data, but figured I’d offer some suggestions in case manually checking is going to be as arduous as it sounds.