Books News The first AI-written play premieres today by Tammy Moir Premiering online today, an Artificial Intelligence has generated a story about a robot trying to understand humanity, in ye olde classic stylings of the Bard. The technology used is known…
News Science This AI robot is catching feelings, apparently by Amy Davidson A Google engineer has announced that an AI chatbot called LaMDA is supposedly developing emotional consciousness. Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, has reportedly been placed on leave since revealing…
News Pop Culture Sex Video Viral sex robot clip reignites public interest in “sextech” by Amy Davidson An old video of a sex robot with a Scottish accent has gone viral again, causing new waves of interest in “sextech.” Back in 2017, a video of a ‘realistic…
Clocked News Psychotic AI microwave tries to kill its creator! by Nate Bramley A microwave created to have the personality of a child’s imaginary friend has attempted to murder its creator. Lucas Rizzotto tells the unique story of his imaginary friend, a microwave,…
Nature News Science Weird Scientists are using AI to decode whale language by Chloe Maddren Sick of small talk? Soon we may be able to communicate with one of the biggest mammals on the planet. An interdisciplinary group of scientists want to use artificial intelligence…
Arts News Weird Think you’re heaps good at art? Let this AI bot brutally judge your drawings by Emily Elvish Another day, another dickhead AI bot ready to crush your soul and dreams. Meet paint.wtf, the virtual drawing competition sweeping the internet. Remember those fond memories of using MS Paint…
Music News Check out this dickhead AI bot that roasts your taste in music by Emily Elvish Attention all Spotify users! There’s a new AI bot circulating the internet with the sole purpose of crushing your dreams and self-worth. Meet How Bad Is Your Spotify. The sun…
News Pro Audio smart:reverb is the new AI-powered ambient plugin from Sonible by Jeremy Span Sonible’s foray into the world of AI-powered processing continues, delivering customised ambience with the smart:reverb. After releasing similar options for compression and EQ, the new smart:reverb analyses the incoming audio…
Music News AI-generated Nickelback is on a whole other level of nasty by Emily Elvish Welcome to 2020; pandemics, bushfires, death hornets, and AI-generated Nickelback. In potentially the greatest and most admirable crime to modern music, the creator of Youtube channel Funk Turkey has dedicated…
News Pro Audio Searchable music: the Musiio App uses AI to tag and search audio by Josh Davies Singapore based music AI company Musiio has announced the Musiio App, a tagging and searching platform for music libraries. Musiio have previously shared their technology with music libraries such as…
News Pro Audio Spleeter: the new AI tool that quickly isolates vocals from finished tracks by Sarah Gillard A research team at the French streaming platform Deezer have released a new AI tool called Spleeter that can quickly isolate vocal and instrumental tracks, and separate a song into…
News An AI analysed a record store’s catalogue and created 230 fake DJ names by Sarah Gillard Berlin-based Olle Holmberg is a Swedish electronic music producer and photographer, with a great affinity for one of Berlin’s most renowned record stores, Hard Wax. So much so, that he trained…
News This country song written by artificial intelligence is a lyrical masterpiece by Happy You Can’t Take My Door isn’t the first song to be written by a computer, but as of today it’s officially my favourite. The track was written by a neural…