Google’s new AI turns text into music
Google researchers have made an AI that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts, and can even transform a whistled or hummed melody into other instruments, similar to how systems like DALL-E generate images from written prompts (via TechCrunch). The model is called MusicLM, and while you can’t play around with it for yourself, the company has uploaded a bunch of samples that it produced using the model.
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Here Are The Top 15 Jobs In Canada For 2023
E-commerce’s boom during the pandemic and the wave of retirements by Baby Boomers are fuelling all kinds of opportunities for job seekers in Canada and foreign nationals looking to immigrate to Canada under economic immigration programs.
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Breaking news: Home Depot Canada criticized by privacy commissioner
The Canadian division of Home Depot didn’t get customers’ consent before sharing details of customers’ e-receipts – including encoded email addresses and in-store purchase information – with Facebook parent Meta Platforms, says Canada’s privacy commissioner.
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Honda works hard to streamline future EV strategy
Japanese automaker Honda has a confusing EV strategy: a forked path with three prongs. It has a partnership with General Motors for two EVs that will be based on GM’s Ultium battery platform and architecture and will be built at a GM plant; another partnership with Sony will yield affordable EVs; and Honda is working on its own e-architecture for future vehicles. In continued efforts to play catchup when it comes to electric vehicles, Honda today announced some global reorganization and the creation of a new business division to accelerate the transformation of the automaker to a more digital future
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