Part I: GenAI Music: Innovate via XdMind, Not Fight Legal Copyright Battles! 

We have all heard many things about GenAI music. When GenAI became available for mass consumption, we hit the era of GenAI-everything, Music included. Let’s talk about GenAI Music: GenAI Music will fill up the music pipeline with tens of millions of songs. Not by known artists, songwriters, or composers, but via algorithms. A few considerations/problems: What were…

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Innovation or Desperation?: New Mercedes Series to Run ZOOM on the Dash

Really Mercedes? I am trying to wrap my head around the quality of a Zoom session while one is driving, hopefully with their attention on the road vs. running a Zoom session on the dash. Secondly, how is the audience going to perceive the speaker? Imagine the distractions while driving. Third: Seriously, what is the…

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Steve Jobs, We Miss You! Without You, Apple is Not Innovating!

When true attempts at innovation fail, desperate attempts of pseudo-innovation take off, often demonstrated in pointless new product introductions and fake-hype. This is exactly what Apple did in the announcement of the release of the iPhone 14 last week, which is lacking any interesting innovation elements. This was perhaps even worse, as Apple attempted to feed…

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Are We Too-Hyper-Connected or Simply Insane?

los angeles hyper connected

Today while driving in LA, I saw something very real and disturbing that I have to share. When the light at our shared intersection was green, two cars were not moving. When I looked, I saw one driver, head down, texting, and the other (and this is a new one), had a laptop rigged up…

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