Archive for the ‘media & arts’ category: Page 5
Feb 2, 2024
The Download: how babies can teach AI, and new mRNA vaccines
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, internet, media & arts, robotics/AI
The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 The world’s largest music label has yanked its artists’ music off TikTok Universal Music Group claims TikTok is unwilling to compensate musicians appropriately. (The Guardian) + Taylor Swift fans are kicking off. (Wired $) + Indie record labels don’t like the sound of Apple’s pay plans either. (FT $)
Feb 2, 2024
YouTube: Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube
Posted by Paul Battista in category: media & arts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dON8vxUInQYA\u0026si\u003d7bam3JUgkIjDhzvz
Jan 31, 2024
TikTok Facing Huge Crisis as It Loses Taylor Swift, BTS, Drake Over Its AI Features
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI
TikTok built its empire off popular music — but now it’s losing access to a ton of it.
In a statement, Universal Music Group said it has chosen to “call time out on TikTok” to pressure the social network for better rules on artificial intelligence, online safety, and artist compensation for its roster, which includes such luminaries as Taylor Swift, Drake, and BTS.
“Today, as an indication of how little TikTok compensates artists and songwriters, despite its massive and growing user base, rapidly rising advertising revenue and increasing reliance on music-based content, TikTok accounts for only about 1 percent of our total revenue,” the statement reads.
Jan 31, 2024
Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in categories: mapping, media & arts
“Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures”
Emotions, bodily sensations and movement are integral parts of musical experiences. Yet, it remains unknown i) whether emotional connotations and structural features of music elicit discrete bodily sensations and ii) whether these sensations are culturally consistent. We addressed these questions in a cross-cultural study with Western (European and North American, n = 903) and East Asian (Chinese, n = 1035). We precented participants with silhouettes of human bodies and asked them to indicate the bodily regions whose activity they felt changing while listening to Western and Asian musical pieces with varying emotional and acoustic qualities. The resulting bodily sensation maps (BSMs) varied as a function of the emotional qualities of the songs, particularly in the limb, chest, and head regions.
Jan 29, 2024
YouTube is not currently available on this device
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: media & arts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dsDD_VcxmToE
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Jan 27, 2024
Shazam now lets you identify music in apps while wearing headphones
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: media & arts
Shazam now lets you identify music while wearing headphones, the Apple-owned company announced this week. All you need to do is open the app, check for the headphone icon to confirm your headphones are connected and then start identifying music playing around you or within apps like TikTok and YouTube. The new update works with both wired and Bluetooth headphones.
Say you’re watching TikTok with headphones and come across a song you like in a video. You can open up the Shazam app, click to Shazam and then head back to TikTok. After a few seconds, the music will stop for a split second and then you can go back to the Shazam app to see the title and artist of the song.
Or, say you’re wearing headphones in a coffeeshop and want to know what song is playing in the café. You can now Shazam the song without having to remove your headphones.
Jan 24, 2024
Is Musical Instinct Innate? AI Model Suggests So
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI
Summary: Researchers made a significant discovery using an artificial neural network model, suggesting that musical instinct may emerge naturally from the human brain. By analyzing various natural sounds through Google’s AudioSet, the team found that certain neurons in the network selectively responded to music, mimicking the behavior of the auditory cortex in real brains.
This spontaneous generation of music-selective neurons indicates that our ability to process music may be an innate cognitive function, formed as an evolutionary adaptation to better process sounds from nature.
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Jan 14, 2024
The Math Behind Building An AI Using DNA #SoME3
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, mathematics, media & arts, robotics/AI
This is an AI called a Neural Network. But all of the transistors and electronics are replaced with DNA, the molecule of life… all in one test tube.
Papers used for this video.
DNA Neural Networks: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4225…
Computation Via DNA: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159…
DNA logic circuits: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146…
Matrices Using DNA: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1…
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