With more and more content on the web being AI generated, but also with the AIs being also trained on content scrapped from the web, aren't we in danger of getting to a situation where we have a feedback loop where AI is essentially learning from itself, but this could just cause the "AI" equivalent of an audio feedback howl. #AI#artificalintelligence#computers#technology
The #DoctorWho : The Wilderness Years documentary on Radio 4 was rather lovely. Of course all fans know the general story. Cancelled by Michael Grade, kept alive by books, audios and dedicated fans, finally to return under Russell T Davies 2005, but when you hear what it meant to people (including those now in the creative industries), it really is an amazing story. Mark Gatiss should do a sequel docu-drama to An Adventure In Time And Space based on this period. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001sljn
Mastondon has now got to the stage that I now can get a variety of funnny jokes and memes about current events, so I now longer need Twitter/X (thanks god)
The monumental entrance to Glasgow University's Art Deco McMillan Reading Room on University Avenue. This distinctive circular building was designed by T Harold Hughes and D S R Waugh and was constructed in the 1930s. It won the RIBA Bronze Medal for the best building in Scotland 1936 to 1949.
Before you get too enthusiastic about audiobooks on Spotify, bear in mind that it's not clear authors will get any benefit from their work being there (therefore they probably won't) and that this lack of transparency appears to be a feature, not a bug:
@helenczerski This sounds like a disaster for authors. And a potential week for Spotify. Lots of people seem to prefer audio books as their preferred manner of consuming books and schemes like this would certainly drive premium subscriptions to Spotify.
I think authors need to "lawyer up" against both their publishers and Spotify. Maybe group action is needed. Or some very wealthy "celebrity authors " eg JKR, etc need to get involved on behalf of the "ordinary" ground level authors.
I've never played a Final Fantasy game & precious few RPG in general. My gaming background is mostly classic Nintendo fare from SNES through to Switch, & in PS4/5 mostly action games like Last of Us, God of War, Horizon, Tsushima etc.
So should I go "back to the start" & play the original FFVII eg on Switch/PS, or just start my Final Fantasy journey with "Remake Intergrade" on PS5. I guess I'm mostly in it for the story?
@NinjaYeti76 it's not so much that I want an RPG. It's that I was interested in the story, narrative and characters from FFVII as I had heard much praise for them, and wondered what the best option to experience this would be.