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When revolutions start it’s hard to know where they’re going to end.
We’re currently in the early stages of the AI (Artificial Intelligence) revolution. The music world is going to change forever. But then the whole world is changing because of AI – and there are upsides and downsides.
The Washington Post has reported that Anthropic halted public release of the new Claude Mythos Preview, saying: “During our testing, we found that Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so”.
So while we worry whether a singer is actually AI, what that statement means is any average hacker could break into anything. Anthropic is working with a consortium of companies including Apple, Google and Microsoft to try and fix it. That’s the downside.
In music, AI is being widely adopted – even in Tauranga. And the results are impressive. Small steps, and why not?
100 years ago
Coincidentally, it’s almost exactly 100 years since another revolution – television.
History tells us Scottish inventor John Logie Baird held the first public demonstration of his “seeing by wireless” device on January 20, 1926. Within a couple of years his TV company launched and his was the main home receiver in Britain.
Things were a bit different back then. The Televisor, as he called it, was portrait-shaped with a screen roughly the size of a matchbox. Early-adopters, or “lookers-in”, as viewers were called, paid 25 guineas, roughly $3500 today. So, the cost of televisions is about the same now as it was then – at least these days the screens are bigger.
Film season
Moving from television to film, in the rush of Easter I forgot to mention Tauranga Film Society (THS) has begun its annual season with films every second Wednesday at Luxe Cinemas. As usual there’s a fine mixture of classics and rarities, mostly unavailable to stream.
TFS chair Kristine Keir picked a couple and opted for epic French historical-political drama Queen Margot from director Patrice Chereau, and Iranian film 3 Faces from Jafar Panahi.
Keir described as 3 Faces “a courageous Iranian film director speaking out against the Iranian regime”. “[It’s] a road movie as well and well worth a watch.”
Find more at: www.nzfilmsociety.org.nz or the society’s Facebook page.
While we’re on non-musical tangents, can I recommend The Art Gallery store, which is now also online. I’m a big fan of art gallery shops in general – they are fantastic places to buy unusual presents. Socks, books, cups, models, playing cards, perfume, you name it, they have it. With the exception, I must point out, of my two favourite art gallery pressies: drink coasters and fridge magnets. I trust this will be remedied swiftly.
Now another plug for The Mauao Landslide Fundraiser, on Sunday, April 26, from midday until 11pm. There will be two stages, dozens of acts, DJ sets and more, with a hardcore Rock and Roll Warm Ups fundraiser on Friday, April 24. Both events will be located at Totara St performance venue in Mount Maunganui. Get tickets at: https://totara.flicket.co.nz/events
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