Category: Technology
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Google’s MusicLM (Product Review)
Listening to some of the music samples generated by text, and you get a good idea of what Google’s MusicLM has been designed to do. Here you can find 30-second snippets created from descriptions that list a genre, specific instruments or a vibe. MusicLM uses a large dataset of unlabelled music and captions from MusicCaps…
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Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology
Ever heard of Melvin Kranzberg? Kranzberg (1917 – 1995) was a professor of history of technology at Georgia Tech. Kranzberg is best known for his Six Laws of Technology: Whilst created back in 1986, Kranzberg’ six laws of technology still very much hold true today. I’ll elaborate on some of these laws and highlight their…
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BeReal (Product Review)
My summary of BeReal before using it – A very popular social media app, probably targeting the same audience as TikTok. How does BeReal explain itself in the first minute? – “bereal. your friends for real” is what I see when I search for BeReal on the app store. These are the main features that…
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Forma Vision (Product Review)
My summary of Forma Vision before using it – Enabling meetings in the Metaverse. How does Forma Vision explain itself in the first minute? – The first thing I see on Forma Vision is a popup that mentions a name change “because Forma Vision better communicates how our service enhances remote collaboration by enabling our…
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OpenAI ChatGpT (Product Review)
A few weeks ago I wrote about DALL-E 2, a a new machine learning model by OpenAI that can create images from a scene written in words. In my blog post, I explained how DALL-E 2 introduces a form of generative AI, enabling users to create images from scratch or to alter existing ones. Last…
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