The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ

kept by eddie mar 18

Spotify's AI DJ fails to understand classical music requests, highlighting its pop-oriented design and the author's frustration with the technology's limitations.

2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
The article recounts how Last.fm and Audioscrobbler pioneered social music tracking and recommendation in the early 2000s.
also on Spotify, #music, #user-experience
Bring On Defunct: The iPod Enthralls Young Music Listeners - The New York Times
Young listeners are adopting iPods as a low-tech alternative to streaming music, valuing the device for reducing constant online connectivity.
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman Is Trying to Take On Apple’s App Store. He’s Got a Long Way to Go. - WSJ
OpenAI's ChatGPT app store, designed to rival Apple's, remains largely dysfunctional and far from replacing traditional apps, early tests show.
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Inside Thinking Machines’ Interaction Models
Thinking Machines argues current turn-based AI voice systems have a scalability ceiling and proposes interaction models using time-aligned micro-turns and a two-model architecture for true real-time collaboration.
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Video Conferencing with Postgres — PlanetScale
A developer demonstrates live video calls over PostgreSQL using logical replication, achieving 15fps with a $5 database.
also on #streaming