“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” Danny Kaye Paul Reubens, better known to millions as the affable, quirky Pee-wee Herman, passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA this past Sunday at the age of 70. Contrary to his boisterous and live-out-loud Pee-wee persona,...
As Marvin and Tammi once crooned many moons ago, ain’t nothin’ like the real thing baby. Well, now in 2023, it’s sometimes hard to ascertain what’s real. Seemingly every week, a new AI (artificial intelligence) generated song is making the rounds on social media. Every Tom, Dick and Timbaland (more on that later) with access...
Recently, audio engineer Young Guru went viral for voicing his concerns with artificial intelligence voice filters. He was reacting to a specific social media video of a man using a Kendrick Lamar AI voice filter. The software, Tacotron 2, allowed the man to do a spot-on replication of Kendrick’s voice. Pretty neat, huh? Not according...
Hi, TTN readers! It’s another Thursday! I’m on with Mark Starling, John, and the First News 570 crew. This week’s top tech stories: First News on 570 mints an NFT, Apple and Meta get phished by social engineers, Musk forces Twitter to release Edit button, and a new AI generates pictures and makes edits. You can listen...