> But these heralds who have volunteered their clairvoyant services to us [...] just know that [superintelligence] is going to happen soon, if not already. And they do know, with all their hearts, that it is going to be bad. Really bad.

This is an unfair characterization of the the most prominent figures in this area. This article by Allan Dafoe and Stuart Russell from 2016 refutes it: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602776/yes-we-are-worried...

> For one, so far everyone predicting doom about AI has been a layman a subject.

This is a myth. It was arguably true 5-10 years ago, but concern with AI safety is not a fringe position even among the highest levels of AI researchers now.

Stuart Russel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell) is the co-author of one of the most popular AI textbooks in the world and he has repeatedly said that he thinks the alignment problem is important and that AI presents an existential risk: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602776/yes-we-are-worried... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvmeTaFc_Qw

Marcus Hutter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Hutter) is another respected AI researcher who, along with, Tom Everitt (http://www.tomeveritt.se/) (a researcher at DeepMind, one of the most advanced AI companies in the world), is also working on the alignment problem: http://www.tomeveritt.se/papers/alignment.pdf

You can read through list of grants granted by the Future of Life institute for AI Safety research, almost all of which are to researchers associated with respected universities, not laymen, here: https://futureoflife.org/ai-safety-research/

I posted an earlier version of this about 2 years ago. Since then I've added a bunch of music theory exercises and created a system for teachers to use the exercises in their classes by giving assignments, tracking scores, etc.

The new music theory exercises use vexflow (https://github.com/0xfe/vexflow ) for drawing the staff in addition to midi.js for the sound. The teacher-account backend uses Django.

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Thanks! Those are all good ideas.

One of them is already implemented: Keyboard shortcuts are available in the advanced options for most exercises.

Good idea! There's an advanced option that puts a "listen" button next to each interval on the sidebar in the intervals exercise, but this would be a good more general feature to include for whenever someone answers incorrectly in any exercise.

This is a great point, I'll work on adding more guidance to the exercises.

Thanks, that's a really good point. I agree that the patterns generated could be improved, but haven't come up with a good automated way to generate an unlimited amount of better ones. Please email me any thoughts you have about the best way to do this, I'm definitely interested in improving these (my email is on my profile page).

I've been listening to the Stanford NLP deep learning lectures, and while I know hardly anything about it compared to most, "deep learning" is screaming at me. If you could generate a "corpus" of musical progressions based off of real music, you could very easily sample from a model to generate progressions that are likely to "co-occur."

This was posted three months ago on HN, but one person used it to generate music. http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

The folk music generation is located at https://soundcloud.com/seaandsailor/sets/char-rnn-composes-i.... I could imagine you could do something similar.

Do you need to generate an unlimited number of them ? Could you just listen to the radio for a few hours and write down some patterns?

I know next to nothing about music theory.

In the example he listed each note goes either up or down one note to the next chord.

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