Fungi



Those who have every submarine cable tapped are likely those that have the most giant AI models.
So much has happened in a blink of an eye and yet little has changed on the shores of infinity.
Terrence McKenna's Stoned Ape Theory - Did psilocybin mushrooms help evolve human consciousness?
"Thriving since 1960, my garden in a bottle: Seedling sealed in its own ecosystem and watered just once in 53 years" - Our primitive in-silico creations have much to learn from multi-species plant ecosystems and their incredible resilience, efficiency & adaptability.
"Design is about making decisions. A person can only make a certain amount of decisions each day, [i]t's really important to keep your mind empty." - Oki Sato
Making music with AI is extremely fun
With features such as "Generate from Text-Prompt", "Generate variations", "Generate continuations", "Fill the gap", "Interpolate" and "Style Transfer", these tools offer endless possibilities for experimentation. 🎵 🤖
A fun exchange from this week, I'm still unpacking: "Would it be OK if we remove everything with the labels "noise music" and "death-metal" from the training set? It make a perfectly working generator feel broken"
Musical One-Shot Samples (kick, snare, bass sounds, etc.) are used everywhere in music production. The (latent) space of possible permutations is surprisingly small.