If a recording of someones very rare voice is representable by mp4 or whatever, could monkeys typing out code randomly exactly reproduce their exact timbre+tone+overall sound?

I don’t get how we can get rocks to think + exactly transcribe reality in the ways they do!

Edit: I don’t get how audio can be fossilized/reified into plaintext

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
    22·
    2 months ago

    The claim was it “contains every 15 seconds audio recording you can imagine. Every single one.”. Which is bullshit, that’s like saying this program contains every single literally work:

    import sys

print(sys.argv[1])

    It’s just adding a layer of encoding on top so it feels less bullshity, something like:

    def decode(number: int):
  out = ""
  while number:
    number, letter_index = divmod(number, len(string.printable))
    out += string.printable[letter_index]
  return out

    That also does not contain every possible (ASCII) book, it can decode any number into a text, and some numbers happen to contain texts that are readable.