Please post an update on HN once you have it working. It’s a fantastic idea.

This is currently generating too much controversy, locally, to proceed with; but her writing ain't going nowhere... and this technology has literally advanced so much in even the past few days... that I know when we come to a resolution of "what is sane, here?" that all the data will be in even better LLM "hands".

Interesting.

This is, perhaps, the most novel and innovative use of a GPT model I have encountered so far.

It feels like you have invented a new product category. Maybe “category” isn’t the right term, a feature? This should be one of the ways to consume and interact with books in the future. It’s an amazing tool for better understanding the material, revising, replacing bookmarks in many cases, and so on. A fascinating advancement!

I want this to be bundled with every book I buy from now on.

What are you replying to, EGreg?

#2 is interesting. I am very curious what the ultimate plan for having 2 messaging apps is (at least in Zuck’s head). My bet is that his fantasy is to eventually merge them into a single service: Meta Messenger.

Yeah I believe the plan for interop has been public for years now

FB messenger is largely used in US. In non-US countries everyone uses Whatsapp.

If they drop whatsapp to combine both of them, it will have quite serious effects and completely ruin the whole 'thing'.

They could do this very gradually. First rename WhatsApp to Meta Messenger. Keep everything else the same. Then with interop being implemented slowly merge FB messenger into Meta Messenger.

interop is not about dropping one over the other, it's about being able to talk to messenger user through whatsapp

Likely just old school chord progressions and pseudo-random note sequences. Maybe something more advanced but doesn’t sound like it to me.

I guess the “innovation” here is in the usage of better VST instruments (probably combinations that have been curated by a human).

The vast majority of very popular music is still created with emotions (even when those are forced). Human element is still critical, and I think will remain so for a very long time.

Algorithms have been able to spit out a cohesive sequence of notes for decades, that did not change anything in the music industry. Adding better production to it is far from enough to turn this into something that people would connect with.

Any time I am prompted to contact someone for pricing I assume it’s not going to be the minimum “starting from” price.

Would you say you do a lot of that then? In enterprise sales (which is doesn't seem like this is), no one pays full list price, the only question is how much of a discount you can negotiate. Presumably if you've got 1000 tracks to get copyright for, you're not paying anywhere near $50/track.

I did that a few times and now just go to competitors instead. I don’t have time or desire to talk to a sales person and decline all their upsell options just to get the price.

Agree with you re enterprise pricing, but usually it’s differentiated quite clearly as an offering meant for high usage/scale.

The awful miss-representation of what this tool is in the intro video.

“You know that tune that has been stuck in your head? Set it free!” - by… not actually being able to compose or select or affect the melody or the harmony?

You can pick the genre and the key. Is that the “tune” that has been stuck in your head: “hip-hop in A minor”?

The magic trick here is destruction of a forest, not confetti in a jacket sleeve.

This video doesn’t destroy a forest while the other ones do.

This and similar investigations are raising awareness of the harm of watching and promoting these scammy channels.