Text to music using AI

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I hope you had a great week and have some solid plans for the weekend.

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"Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward." — Roy T. Bennett

Don’t let failure define you. Learn. Reflect. Refine.

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Herculean Strength | SEE PINNED TWEET @HerculeanStren1

People: "I eat healthily but can't lose any weight" Also people: *eats 800 calories of trail mix in 10 minutes*

Safe to say not all calories are made the same

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Article Roundup

MusicLM lets you create music via Google

This is how MusicLM, a model for generating high-quality music from text descriptions, works.

MusicLM casts the process of conditional music generation as a hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modeling task. This allows it to generate music at 24 kHz that remains consistent over several minutes.

In addition, MusicLM can be conditioned on both text and a melody, so that it can transform whistled and hummed melodies according to the style described in a text caption. Read and test it here (link)

Massachusetts lawmakers eye regulation of ChatGPT

With the rise of artificial intelligence, lawmakers in Massachusetts are considering regulating ChatGPT, a technology that could potentially increase productivity.

Some advocates say that this could be a game-changer for businesses, but others are concerned about the potential implications. Read more here (link)

Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash

MAV3D lets you generate three-dimensional dynamic scenes from text descriptions

MAV3D is a method for generating three-dimensional dynamic scenes from text descriptions. It uses a 4D dynamic Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) for scene optimization. The NeRF is queried by a Text-to-Video (T2V) diffusion-based model.

Read more here (link)

AI in Africa

Photo by kevin turcios on Unsplash

Looking to level the playing field, many African nations are turning to artificial intelligence (AI). According to the World Economic Forum, AI has the potential to contribute up to USD 15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. Read more here (link)

That’s a wrap for today.

Enjoy your weekend.

Patrick.