Mr Sekar had produced an article on Artificial Intelligence usage on Music, one part of Google, depicting a kind of scary feeling. However, it is a tool; as aa software we use gmail , Google etc and whats app etc. As a matter of fact, M S V and earlier and a part of Ilaya Raja in the earlier period, were tuning and recorded as notes and then Musicians were allocated to raise a song. But this theory was first broken by A R rtahman. He used to record the "chords" first; then he would record the beats only ; then he would add instruments as interludes; then extra interpolations that were essential for the picturisation were added; then the lyricist was called to write words for the above tune and beats. Then the runner like Srinivas and his retinue will sing and record; this mix up wrt the original BGMs were sent by online, tapes or pen drives to the playback singers; the PBS will arrive at the appointed time individually ,just record their portion and will go away. Because the pitch of the BGM was so high, A R Rahman would need one who can sing like the instrument does on strings or air which is pretty difficult . Now no one knows, including the ARR, what exactly is there. Now the ARR will mix up the tracks punching ,cutting and adding extra interpolations to fill. Then the song will be delivered by the computer . This will be given to the sound engineer who will mix up and upgrade or downgrade ,as audible and tasty to the ears. There the next level of 5 1 speakers, 2 speakers and 7 1 speaker ,divisions of sound will be done. AI now gives those types of chords, a beat and a kind of lines as Rahman did once on his computer. The play back singers will know only at that stage what they sang listening to the tune in one piece and wonder where what they heard while voice recording had gone?. AI is another name for Robotics. One thing shall be remembered; we have to create it. Creative modality is ours. Storage and maintenance of our creativity is AI. K Rajaram IRS 5123
On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 at 01:05, 'N Sekar' via iyer123 <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought this is worth sharing. > > First part, which is about Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a bit scary. > Nobody's job is safe anymore. Just listen to the audio. > > N Sekar > [image: Finshots] > <https://bn9wksbn.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Ffinshots.in%3Futm_source=emailHeader%26utm_medium=mailshots/1/010001861faef7a3-d73575b5-a707-4a90-89e7-84cb18585cb6-000000/AioGOYJbQzenhQRiLvIIh8YSxSE=307> > Sunny > Side Up đł: AI Music, Devil in your SIPs & Expensive Paintings [image: > Sunny Side Up ��: AI Music, Devil in your SIPs & Expensive Paintings | > Finshots Daily Newsletter] > > Hi friends, > > Are you still reeling under all those Twitter threads and LinkedIn posts > about how ChatGPT is going to take over the world? Everyoneâs busy listing > out the kinds of jobs that will be lost thanks to AI. Even us writers. đ > > But have you seen what Google has been up to with AI? > > Last week, the tech giant quietly released something called MusicLM. Itâs > an AI that has been trained on 280,000 hours of music. And now, it can > create some thumping music for you. Even from complex text prompts like > this > <https://bn9wksbn.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fgoogle-research.github.io%2Fseanet%2Fmusiclm%2Fexamples%2F/1/010001861faef7a3-d73575b5-a707-4a90-89e7-84cb18585cb6-000000/0_jm430GzZ6GopWw8A_BluJB8nA=307> > â âA rising synth is playing an arpeggio with a lot of reverb. It is backed > by pads, sub bass line and soft drums. This song is full of synth sounds > creating a soothing and adventurous atmosphere. It may be playing at a > festival during two songs for a buildup.â > > It really sounds too good to be true. > > Now Google isnât releasing MusicLM to the world just yet. But whyâs that, > you ask? > > Apparently, thereâs a bit of an ethical dilemma here. You see, MusicLM has > this tendency to take original material created by artists and use it in > its own music. Itâs not that bad â only 1% of its music was plagiarised so > to speak. But itâs still a problem. You donât want to get sued by massive > music production businesses for copyright infringement. > > Thereâs also something else that lawyer Chris Mammen pointed out to The > Verge. Letâs say youâre purchasing a song. Are you buying the rights to > play the song or are you also buying the right to use it for training AI > bots? Do you need the artistâs permission before you put it to use? > > Lawyers arenât quite sure whatâs the right answer yet. > > So yeah, you can see why Googleâs keeping its public release on hold for > now. But the way things are shaping up, it looks like even music producers > are soon going to face the heat of AI! > > *Hereâs a non-AI soundtrack to get you in the mood* đľ > > Sukoon > <https://bn9wksbn.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv=VO373TZwaM8/1/010001861faef7a3-d73575b5-a707-4a90-89e7-84cb18585cb6-000000/_Yur7gp9Eu4NnsT-BLCiaUd-7Lk=307> > by Hassan & Roshaan ft Shae Gill > > Listen to this non-AI generated song and tell us it doesnât soothe you?! > Hat tip to our reader Aakankshi Bothara for this lovely recommendation. > > *A couple of things caught our eye this week đ* > > *Metaâs big day is thanks to firing people* > > Metaâs (formerly Facebook) stock price jumped 20% > <https://bn9wksbn.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2023-02-01%2Fmeta-revenue-beats-expectations-as-facebook-keeps-growing/1/010001861faef7a3-d73575b5-a707-4a90-89e7-84cb18585cb6-000000/biikYvPVl0YQIf5_E3dJ0Bn-Aw0=307> > on Friday. It was its biggest single-day jump in a decade. But guess what? > It wasnât some new buzzword like Metaverse that did the trick. It wasnât > even its latest earnings which was a bummer really â it fell a whopping > 55% > <https://bn9wksbn.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fwww.fastcompany.com%2F90843696%2Fmeta-fb-stock-buybacks-revenue-profit-q4-ad-sales/1/010001861faef7a3-d73575b5-a707-4a90-89e7-84cb18585cb6-000000/B7zxd1uYfqrt_9w3hsLhEwR_Lxg=307> > during Oct-Dec 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. > > What did the trick? > > Well, a couple of things. > > See, investors only care about future profits. Metaâs slashed 13% of its > workforce already. And it could just be the tip of the iceberg. More job > cuts could be on the way. Free perks will be thrown out of the window. > Heck, Metaâs CTO > <https://bn9wksbn.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fboz.com%2Farticles%2Ffocus/1/010001861faef7a3-d73575b5-a707-4a90-89e7-84cb18585cb6-000000/C73SYU4NMZMplk4vfkwP1dldJSs=307> > even published a blog post where he said how Facebookâs culture had changed > â from initially saying no to charitable donation to then saying yes > without thinking. And well, charitable donations donât help a companyâs > core business. > > Now he may not really have meant to say that charity at Facebook was a bad > thing. But you get the drift. Itâs all going to be about fiscal discipline > in 2023. You can be sure that investors will rub their hands in glee when > they hear of every cost-cutting measure. Theyâll probably make more money > in the future. > > But the bigger thing is that Meta announced a $40 billion dollar buyback. > What does that mean, you ask? > > Well, Meta has some spare cash lying around. Itâll also pad up its coffers > after all those layoffs. So what can it do with the money? Well, it could > invest it into projects that will help it move the needle in a big way. But > if there arenât enough such ideas, it can return the cash back to > investors. Meta will pay them a nice sum of money and simply buy the shares > back from them. > > So yeah, investors love layoffs and getting money into their pockets > instead. Simple. > > ***** > > *Apple Watches are creating havoc* > > Appleâs ads are brilliant. Letâs face it. Apple knows how to play to your > emotions and sell product. And they donât just tell you facts about the > product. Theyâll weave a story. Like the ad about privacy where a person is > chased by a barista at a coffee shop, the banker, and everyone else for > data. > > But the most hard-hitting ad is probably one they made for the Apple > Watch. Itâs called 911 and it simply tells you the stories of real people > who were stuck in real emergencies and called for help using their Apple > Watch. The watch saved their lives. And the ad plays to the basest of human > emotions â fear. Fear of dying. > > Itâs brilliant. > > But thereâs another feature of the Apple Watch â the fall detector. Now, > when Apple launched this feature, this is what their website said > <https://bn9wksbn.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fen-in%2FHT208944/1/010001861faef7a3-d73575b5-a707-4a90-89e7-84cb18585cb6-000000/x4rOO6yJyiOnhfS1nwlwQlbhoOs=307> > . > > *âIf Apple Watch SE or Apple Watch Series 4 or later detects a hard fall > while youâre wearing your watch, it taps you on the wrist, sounds an alarm, > and displays an alert. You can choose to contact emergency services or > dismiss the alert by pressing the Digital Crown, tapping Close in the > upper-left corner, or tapping âIâm OK.â* > > *If your Apple Watch detects that youâre moving, it waits for you to > respond to the alert and wonât automatically call emergency services. If > your watch detects that youâve been immobile for about a minute, it will > make the call automatically.â* > > Sounds perfectly reasonable, right? If youâre fine and can respond, no > harm done. > > But hereâs the thing. Apple Watches seem to be on overdrive these days. > Apple made the software more sensitive and it keeps making false automated > calls now. Especially when people are skiing. Now if someoneâs skiing, and > thereâs a false alert, they canât just stop on the slope and hit âIâm OKâ, > right? > > So emergency workers > <https://bn9wksbn.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2023%2F02%2F03%2Fhealth%2Fapple-watch-911-emergency-call.html/1/010001861faef7a3-d73575b5-a707-4a90-89e7-84cb18585cb6-000000/wlYaceKNnpI2-xnXagmxTe1oSgI=307> > in the US have to respond to all these falls calls now. And theyâre not > happy about it. Because it could mean they suddenly put other calls on > hold. Calls which are real emergencies. > > And what do these emergency responders want? > > Well, they think that Apple should maybe have its own call centre to deal > with emergencies triggered by its feature > > *Money tips đ°* > > *The devil in your SIP* > > Weâll all been sold fairy tales of Systematic Investment Plans or SIPs. In > case youâre wondering what on earth is an SIP â itâs just an automated > monthly investment you make into a mutual fund. Everyone tells you that > SIPs are the best way to build long-term wealth. That the magic of > compounding will work in your favour. > > And this is true. If youâre disciplined and invest money regularly, it > truly does compound and create riches. > > But sometimes, SIPs can shock you too. Because thereâs something no one > tells us â Itâs never a one way ride to the top. And as the infamous lines > go, âEven SIPs are subject to market risk.â > > Yes, the calculators and charts show you values that simply go up and up > and up. But no one shows the stock market crashes that occur in between all > this. > > Let me paint a picture. > > Imagine youâve diligently invested âš10,000 every month through the fabled > SIP route. The investment grows and after 5 years, itâs worth âš8 lakhs. > Youâre happy. Itâs exactly what all those charts promised. > > But then, the stock market crashes by 30%. You look at the investment and > itâs now worth only âš5.6 lakhs. 5 years of investing goes down the drain. > You wish youâd just put money into an FD instead. You curse everyone who > ever uttered the word SIP. > > You panic seeing this loss and withdraw the investment. > > And I donât blame you for that. Itâs an evolutionary trait. If we see a > snake today, weâll quickly flee in the opposite direction. Itâs a > fight-or-flight response. Our brain has evolved to respond quickly to any > risk it perceives. And thatâs valid even if itâs the risk of the stock > market. When we see red and everything crashing, we want to take our money > and run away. We overreact. > > Thatâs what happens all the time. > > But slowly, the market recovers. It continues to march upwards. Investors > who braved the uncertainty continue to make money. They even kept investing > during the market crash. Which means that they kept buying at cheaper and > cheaper levels. Smart! > > You, on the other hand, are not gaining anything anymore. You already > withdrew your money disappointed at what you thought were false promises of > SIPs. If only someone had told you, âSIPs are not a magic wand. Be patient.â > > At least now you know that you simply shouldâve ignored the noise. You > have a new mantra â âJust Keep Investingâ. > > *Readers Recommend đď¸* > > Quit: The Power of Knowing When To Walk Away > <https://bn9wksbn.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F60097435-quit/1/010001861faef7a3-d73575b5-a707-4a90-89e7-84cb18585cb6-000000/EeNCRqvuLkUQnrVXX5b2zkMi23w=307> > by Annie Duke > > This brilliant book was recommended by our reader Rishabh Jhol. Now he put > quite a bit of effort into trying to explain what the book is about in a > nutshell. But the gist of it can be captured in these few lines: > > *âIt is important to quit not only because the path you are pursuing isnât > worthwhile anymore, but also because you are less likely to put your time, > money, and intention in exploring other opportunities due to myopic path > dependency* > > *âŚ.* > > *When we are on a path, we tie our identity to it. We suffer from sunk > cost fallacy as we believe weâve invested too much into it and it would be > foolish to move away. It potentially prevents us from having a bigger > outcome in life.â* > > And if youâre not a reader, he says that the audiobook is a great > companion for walks too. > > So read it, listen to it, and let us know what you think. > > *** > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iyer123" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/1441274088.326776.1675587870080%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/1441274088.326776.1675587870080%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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