“According to the newly signed statute — dubbed the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act or ‘ELVIS Act’ — vocal likeness will now be added to that list” apnews.com/article/artifi…

Upcoming!

On why current LLMs struggle with “not” quantamagazine.org/ai-like-chatgp…

Double rainbow in Roslindale!

Deirdre Loughridge's SOUNDING HUMAN describes eighteenth-century automatons and machine-made music. What can this history teach us about 21st-century artificial intelligence? Read more from Jason Farago in the The New York Times.
nyti.ms/3tLrxgw

And what can you do with the mouse now that he’s in the public domain? Well, it’s complicated: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/

Happy #PublicDomainDay 2024!⁠ It's the day at the start of each year on which works enter the #publicdomain , and it's an extra special one this year as it sees the freeing of a certain mouse! More on this and our other highlights here: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/p…

Instead of worrying about whether A.I. can do what humans do, what if we raise our cultural expectations of humans? Our critic weighs in. nyti.ms/48AGMrE

Don’t fear algorithms that imitate humans; fear the reverse nytimes.com/2023/12/28/art…

“The fifth element in the picture, which is the symbolic or artistic addition and not an actual member of the Beatles, is the perfect cup of tea.” 😂

And it's here! From UChicagoPress, a musical exploration of human-or-machine logic and its alternatives, from androids to so-called AI

Tracks 34-37 Arca, “Riquiquí” (2020) & from Riquiquí; Bronze-Instances(1-100) (2020), the album of its 100 remixes via AI - or in her term that steps outside the usual frame of human comparison to contemplate machine capabilities, 'intelligent sentience' youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Hexorcismos, Transfiguración (2020). An example of alternative to likening/comparing AI to human, 𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰 describes 'approaching the Neural Network as an alchemical technology,' which aptly characterizes the process of style transfer hexorcismos.bandcamp.com/album/-

Trks 29-30 are from Dadabots, Can't Play Instruments, Vol 1 (2021), an album of neural network-generated hardcore punk that continued the duo's front of humanless musical creation (while elsewhere dadabots discuss 'using the neural nets as an instrument') youtube.com/watch?v=Mzv9s2…