e458 — Generative Podcast – Games At Work dot Biz

boombox (portable radio & cassette player) intended to represent older music — Photo by Eric Nopanen on Unsplash

Published 18 March 2024

Michael M and Andy get together to talk tech while missing Michael R – focusing on AI thought experiments, engaging talks at Monkigras and NASA’s tabletop game “The Lost Universe”.

Starting off with an article from NewScientist, Andy and Michael M engage in the thought experiment of whether an AI could replace all music (ALL music) with Taylor Swift covers. Though this thought experiment is farfetched, the idea of generated musical covers has already been covered (sic) by the Games at Work team with the example of an AI generated Johnny Cash singing Barbie Girl in the style of the Fulsom County Prison in e426. And the concepts raised in the article remind Andy of several recent talks at the Monkigras conference in London this past week.

Then, Andy and Michael take on the challenging subject of an AI that is designed to train other AIs to do software engineering. Devin AI is described as a “fully autonomous AI software engineer” by Cognition, and can “build and deploy apps end to end”.

Last, the team enjoys checking out NASA’s tabletop game called “The Lost Universe” with it’s Tolkeinesque maps and more. The show notes below has all the links as per usual. Staying on the space theme, there are some cool photos in the show notes below!

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