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Apr 17, 2017
Artificial Intelligence Might Put Musicians out of Work
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI
Amper is a platform which enables anyone to make music with AI.
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Apr 10, 2017
Siri vs. Google Assistant: Pixar Artists Designing A Stronger Personality For The Latter: Report — By Rishabh Jain | International Business Times
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DSWpzUSj8
“Google is set to give its artificial intelligence-based voice assistant, Google Assistant, a more robust personality.”
Apr 10, 2017
Audio engineering is making call center robots more ‘human’ and less annoying
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: business, engineering, information science, media & arts, robotics/AI
Audio engineering can make computerized customer support lines seem friendlier and more helpful.
Say you’re on the phone with a company and the automated virtual assistant needs a few seconds to “look up” your information. And then you hear it. The sound is unmistakable. It’s familiar. It’s the clickity-clack of a keyboard. You know it’s just a sound effect, but unlike hold music or a stream of company information, it’s not annoying. In fact, it’s kind of comforting.
Michael Norton and Ryan Buell of the Harvard Business School studied this idea —that customers appreciate knowing that work is being done on their behalf, even when the only “person” “working” is an algorithm. They call it the labor illusion.
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Apr 2, 2017
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | MIT
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: media & arts
“This site has offered Shakespeare’s plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.”
Apr 2, 2017
Getty Research Institute Online Exhibition The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: media & arts
“In this 21st century, war in Syria has irrevocably changed the ancient caravan city of Palmyra, famed as a meeting place of civilizations since its apogee in the mid-2nd to 3rd century CE.”
Mar 31, 2017
Synesthesia Is The Odd Condition Of Tasting Music, Hearing Colors, Or Seeing Flavors
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: media & arts
For most of us, listening to music, reading a good book, or talking to a friend on the phone are all great ways to wind down. But for someone with synesthesia, activities like those take on another dimension. Synesthetes, as they’re called, experience a blending of two or more senses so that music may have flavor, words may show up in imaginary colors, or voices may elicit different tactile sensations. Scientists don’t yet understand the root causes of this real-life superpower, but what they’re discovering so far is exciting.
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Mar 22, 2017
Free The Art: Cryptocurrencies & communities unite with creators
Posted by Tatiana Moroz in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, entertainment, finance, fun, innovation, media & arts, open source, thought controlled
by Tatiana Moroz
The most moving thing to me about music is it’s ability to change. It changes the mood, the atmosphere, and it fills us with emotion. It can unify mankind in the power of good and triumph over evil regimes. What most struck me was when we saw this in the 60’s and 70’s folk songs that became anthems for the civil rights, equality, and antiwar movements. Even as a little girl, I knew that this core drive and expression for freedom was critical to the success of humanity as we marched ever closer to the nightmarish visions painted in 1984 and Brave New World.
This is a heavy and serious purpose, but one I took to heart as I created songs of hope, sadness, life, beauty and love. I noticed that the music industry seemed averse to this type of meaning based songwriting, and the radio waves were filling with more vapid nonsense by the minute. However, I kept my head down and tried to educate myself on the ways we could organize society for the better.
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Mar 20, 2017
The World’s First Personal Robot
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: habitats, media & arts, robotics/AI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YwPUcG3eiFc
TechCrunch: “You’ll soon be coming home and a robot will greet you at the door.”
VentureBeat: “Read to kids, host video chats, take pictures, recognize faces and objects, connect to smart home devices, and secure the home by roaming around and video taping everything.”
Mar 18, 2017
You Can Ban a Person, But What About Their Hologram?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: augmented reality, holograms, law, media & arts
If you think augmented reality is only fun and games, consider that we’ve already witnessed the first known police action taken against hologram technology. During the summer of 2015, a performance by controversial gangster-rapper, Keith Cozart, was shut down when local police discovered the musician was broadcast as a hologram into a benefit concert in Indiana—close to the border of his home state of Illinois.
Cozart, who goes by the stage name “Chief Keef,” is from a rough neighborhood in Chicago, and has ties to local gangs as well as a criminal record including felony gun charges. His music, which glamorizes a gang lifestyle and violence, has prompted public officials—including Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel—to pressure music festivals to avoid inviting Cozart because they say it poses a “significant public safety risk.”
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