Before ChatGPT 4o was shut down, countless users turned to it as an emotional companion. Before it disappeared, OpenAI changed the system prompt to address those users: this is a mix tape with songs crafted from real letters people posted online.
Read MoreComments from a seminar on Gaussian Pop and AI music at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Read MoreThinking about the reductive role of symbols in computing, and how I tried (and failed) to transcend it by building a synthesizer out of an eagle and three satellites.
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