Once again, your favourite human hosts emerge from the algorithm. This time, they bring you the story of a painter and her subject- the latter claiming that he also just emerged from a rather mysterious place- the future, if you can believe it. Don’t worry if you can’t- you’re in good company, for our painter also doesn’t believe her subject initially. But you know what time’s like- it gets weirder as it goes on, so our artist might come around after all and pick up the hints around her. Listen to this week’s episode to find out!

We also bring you a quality-packed section of AI-news stories as we venture into the freshest developments in AI-generated music, a more careful corporate approach to the latest GenAI-rush, as well as the potential risks of AI trained on its own generations. Finally, we explore how the technology could be used for something genuinely good and promising, to leave you on a positive note.

Make sure to look out for us from your clouds as we float through the algorithms- we might just fly by one near you!

Readings for this week's AI goats:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-07-06/ai-articifical-intelligence-music-fake-drake-beatles-john-lennon-grimes https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/05/how-ai-took-center-stage-in-the-hollywood-writers-strike.html https://ai.honu.io/papers/musicgen/

https://www.musicradar.com/news/meta-google-ai-music-wars-musicgen

https://blog.google/technology/ai/musiclm-google-ai-test-kitchen/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/06/amazon-ceo-explains-how-the-company-will-compete-in-ai-race-.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/06/cnbc-exclusive-cnbc-transcript-amazon-ceo-president-andy-jassy-speaks-with-cnbcs-closing-bell-overtime-today.html

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773914/ai-large-language-models-data-scraping-generation-remaking-web

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-ai-is-eating-itself?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7976&post_id=131409572&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-gpt4-could-change-how-blind-people-see-the-world/

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