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.”
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!
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.
Yeah, EXACTLY like that! Great analogy!
At least I got invited to cuddle with the AI while I waited for the reset.
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.