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Nano Banana for me. After the initial wow phase it's meh now. Randomly refuses to adhere to the prompt. Randomly makes unexpected changes. Randomly triggers censorship filter. Randomly returns the image as is without making any changes.

From the paper:

"A single run of the DGM on SWE-bench...takes about 2 weeks and incurs significant API costs." ($22,000)

Yup, they are called GCCs (Global Capability Centers).

The result announcement blog post sounded too hypey and gave the impression that he changed his tone but for the last one year he has been consistently saying that LLM+"discreet program search" is the way to go. All the top scoring submissions before o3 had followed the same bruteforce strategy. Even o3 is more or less doing the same bruteforce under the hood, maybe not discreet.

Dark mode finally!!! This was the only bummer for me all these years. Not anymore!

We can extend this phenomenon to all of knowledge. You ask ChatGPT something and it gives you some very generic 10-point blogspam-esque answer. You immediately think ChatGPT is intelligent and that it has understood your particular question and that it has given you a tailor-made answer.

His book "The Algebraic Mind" goes into great detail about connectionism (neural networks), symbolic systems, limits of connectionism and proposals to integrate neural networks with symbolic systems (hybrid systems).

The "deep learning alone is enough" camp (especially LeCun) has abused him for years but now slowly coming to the realization that we need to feed neural networks with explicit inductive biases to attain AGI which is exactly what Marcus has been saying since the 90s. LeCun, for some reason, refuses to call these explicit biases as symbols and that's the only disagreement between Marcus and LeCun these days.

I think her target audience is extremely broad. From teenagers to middle-aged people. Plus her latest album was marketed aggressively.

Those models are not trained on short loops. They are trained on whole songs just like image generation models are trained on whole images. And yet they struggle to repeat sections, modulate to a different key, create bridges, intros and outros. After a few seconds of hallucinating a melodic line they simply abandon the idea and migrate to another one. There is no global structure whatsoever.

AI is bad at music also. Even the state of the art transformer models can't produce more than a few seconds of coherent melodic phrases.

This one suffers from the same problem that previous audio generation methods had. It correctly mimics the piano timbre but there is no global structure in the generated melodic lines. There is some style imitation but no melodic coherence.

Lots of weird artifacts which are very hard to fix.

The argument that users can now generate professional grade art by bypassing artists entirely feels so strange. I have access to Dall-E. To generate images without artifacts, you have to do one of these: a) Do a lot of cherry-picking which can be expensive. b) Prompt should be about an abstract concept which can "tolerate" any number of artifacts. c) Prompt should be about a common/generic concept that you have already seen a lot of times on the internet.

I think the biggest use case of Dall-E will be in removing creative block for artists.

JSPatcher is similar to Max/MSP. Even the UI design is a blatant ripoff.

There are already full blown online DAWs like BandLab, Soundation, Amped Studio etc.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22448933

Interesting. Is there anywhere I can listen to the music generated by your algorithm?

Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications

Professor Xavier Serra[1] is a highly respected veteran in the field.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Serra

Care to elaborate?

Magenta Studio

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/studio

Who gets to decide what is the "point" of music? Music is a twenty billion dollar industry. An AI system that can spit out highly "realistic" and "pleasing" music can change the music industry as we know it.

This might be onto something!

Just listen to this from 30s: https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/pop-rock-in-the-6355437/...

Such coherent and pleasing melodic phrases in the style of Avril Lavigne. I thought it could be copying wholesale from a song unknown to me. Nope. Shazam doesn't get it.

This can revolutionize song writing/composition/production and soon music listening/consumption.

Judging by the four provided melodies: 1) the notes have very little rhythmic variation. 2) the melodies don't seem to have any concept of metre or metric accent.

I was going to type Jukedeck. Thought I'd visit the site first. Offline. Apparently TikTok has bought it!

Thanks a lot.

How does this compare to Code Maps in Visual Studio? Can anyone who has used both comment?

Apart from the opposition parties, I could not find a single reputed source that says India's GDP numbers are fudged.

Germany and audio software. Name a better duo.

"Quality of education was identical. However, children attending low-exposed schools had slightly better maternal education; had less behavioral problems, obesity, and foreign origin; had more siblings and residential greenness;"

Creators Updates (1703 / 1709) are the culprits. LTSB (1607) has not been upgraded to Creators Update yet and it runs like butter.

There is no 'birth control is evil' concept in Hinduism. 80% Indians are Hindus. Poverty is the reason for there being too many people. Poor people tend to have more children.

Same old story. Short incoherent melodies scattered everywhere with no structure whatsoever.