aidan o driscoll

Excellent .. waiting patiently for this. I have SF Pro 13 and Vegas Pro 18 Edit .. so a decent upgrade on both for price of about 3-4 pints

Musk on AGI - artificial general intelligence - video at link below https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1730001789137633281 Elon Musk has just stated at the DealBook summit that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is only about three years away. He also stated that he thinks that Open AI discovered something possibly dangerous or alarming and that is why Sam Altman was fired.

Maybe THIS is the reason we NEED AI? Up to now I was thinking AI would make us this way taking away our faculties but maybe not, maybe AI is needed to support us because idiocracy is already here ..

Our world IS turning into this

Net result of that is you can never believe in anything going forward, even your own beliefs should be questioned and potentially unbelieved / a lie in that case?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke

Interesting read - BIG BROTHER made real "Facial recognition firm Clearview AI says it will soon have 100 BILLION photos in its database to ensure 'almost everyone in the world will be identifiable' and wants to expand beyond law enforcement" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10523739/Clearview-AI-seeking-100-billion-photos-facial-recognition-database.html This is where the problems start: "Clearview fills its database by scouring sources like Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other sites, according to the company." Further down article they go into the privacy issues in all this and many countries / agencies not at all happy with this. BUT my first thought is even if demands are made at Clearview AI to remove these images who knows if they would, the database of 100 billion images is already created it seems, just go under ground. I know the saying where social media is concerned - "YOU ARE THE PRODUCT" - but i dont think legally that extends to companies scraping data from soc media to use without any form of permission

Nothing and proud of it .. biggest BF savings I ever had

Yes, been noodling with demo, nice

More in depth review of this:

So here is McRocklin Suite: Is it an alt replacement for likes of GUITAR RIG etc? TBH I had never heard of this ( as a guitarist ) .. ( @ZincT @craigb ) https://www.polychromedsp.com And here is a review vid: He plays a piece about 6 mins in with a real JOURNEY Neil Schon type solo sound

Im seeing mention that this is a SOOTH alt ...

On AI subject "Aitana, an exuberant 25-year-old pink-haired woman from Barcelona, receives weekly private messages from celebrities asking her out. But this model is not real, she was created by her designers using AI." https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/11/22/meet-the-first-spanish-ai-model-earning-up-to-10000-per-month

I know we can be glib about this BUT do any of ye REALLY KNOW whats going on with AI development? When a while back many top scientists got together to warn the world of AI dev inc Musk & many others. When i read this part: "Several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity" When i saw this I felt real scared, as if I was watching a scifi movie but this time its real. I even checked in my head was it april 1st. The big thing for me is who has, will get there hands on tech like this and do what with it? It will not be restricted to Governments and countries. To me it sounds very dystopian IN REALITY. Its the first I heard of Q * ( Star ) AND artificial general intelligence (AGI). The latter being a next level above AI, the ultimate frontier it seems

Elon Musk today tweeted 2 words "Extremely concerning!" and then THIS REUTERS ARTICLE https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/ I tend to agree .. when I read it, I had to read it again thinking was this for real. Here are 3 paragraphs that should scare you: Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. .. a letter about the AI breakthrough called Q* (pronounced Q-Star), precipitated the board's actions. The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q*, which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup's search for superintelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), one of the people told Reuters. OpenAI defines AGI as AI systems that are smarter than humans. I know we all have made jokes about AI and likes of dystopian Terminator type future, but this is no joke. How far have we gone with this thing even now? How much do we not know? What if this gets into the wrong hands .. what if it is already in the wrong hands? This is very serious

@MrFigg Compared to IK MULTIMEDIA SAMPLETRON 2 over at JRRSHOP in $$$$, no VAT mentioned ... $39.99 ... use GROUP Coupon and its $33.59 OR €30.87

IK MULTIMEDIA SYNTRONIK MAX V2 is available at JRRSHOP for $39.99 vs $199. Add the GROUP coupon and its $33.59 https://www.jrrshop.com/ik-multimedia-syntronik-2-max Over at IK, more detail - https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/syntronik2/?pkey=syntronik-2-max-v2 Syntronik 2 has 22 synths. Syntronik 2 MAX V2 has 34 synths. Check link above under VERSIONS and then Compare for lists

FYI, inc VAT in EURO thats €42.30 .. still good value vs full price though ( the 29.99 figure looks nice but no with VAT and exchange rate )

Yip .. its €39 https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/sampletron2/ Jam points my end dont seem to work, but probably as its on sale

Yeah - Dust-o-Tron is a seperate paid for expansion pack: https://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/dust-o-tron/

@MrFigg Do you already have either Select or LE version of the M-TRON in your account products? If not, then thats the issue. Maybe you have Select / LE already but did not register the serial with Gforce yet? ( you can do that at your account )

@MrFigg LOG IN TO YOUR GFORCE ACCOUNT first, then go to the link in the OP and add to cart, there you will see the offer added if you already own LE / Select

Of course some of us may already have the MELLOTRON V from Arturia .. I do https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/mellotron-v/overview Recent ( though may be slightly out of date already ) shoot-out on ARTURIA Mellotron V vs M-TRON PRO IV over at kvraudio forums: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=594408

Yip @MusicMan .. same as you, have LE/Select and i get the ST£29.99+vat price also once I add the product to basket

Yip - Too be honest its more about the music than lyric for me. Having a good verse chord sequence but looking then for an AI tool to suggest a Chorus chord sequence that lifts a track. More for ideas that you yourself might not think of