"Never Gonna Give You Up, but an AI creates more of the song"

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"So this neural network is called Jukebox, by OpenAI, which basically generates songs that don't exist. Check out the links below if you wanna know about it, or listen to more AI-generated songs from other artists.

[What is this?] https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/
[More AI songs] https://jukebox.openai.com/
[Source Code] https://github.com/openai/jukebox/
[AI Upscaler (Used for video)] https://topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai/
(There's a 30-day trial if you don't feel like paying for it)"

(EDIT) Newer, slightly inferior embed, because the originally embedded video was set to private. *weary sigh* (/EDIT)

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Okay, this is cool, but also kind of damn creepy, too.

(I guess I'm going to have to make a more generalized "artificial intelligence" tag or something like that at some point. ...maybe later.)

(EDIT) Entirely removed the second embed (of "Running in the 90s") for the same reason, i.e. the original video was set to private, but in this latter case, I couldn't find an alternative upload of it on Youtube itself. *weary sigh* At least there's still the Wayback version there. (/EDIT)

"Stuff We Missed In 2022 – SOME MORE NEWS"

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"Hi. On our final episode of 2022, we look back at some stories we didn't cover, including soup getting thrown at art, a queen dying in some sort of kingdom, quiet quitting, and brief instances of some good news."

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A bit too skit-heavy for my tastes (and, honestly, these days, any skits at all are too many, as far as I'm concerned), but otherwise an okay episode.

Without getting into all that other banal, tiresome, nauseating, bullshit "news" crap that Cody talks about all the time...

...pretty much everything I've personally seen and heard about the new Avatar movie has been good. I thought the first one was plenty good enough, too, for that matter (based on the one [1] time I've seen it, back when it first came out, 13 years ago), and I never really understood all the "oh god, not another Avatar movie, lord it's going to be terrible just like the first one was" opinions that washed/wafted across the Internet all effluvia-like in the wake of the announcement of its mere existence. Granted, I haven't seen the new one yet, so I don't know, maybe I'll hate it, but I doubt I'll hate it.