Closing the loop: they might not have been entirely wrong...
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I've listened to most of his albums for many years now - lots of good stuff in there... He has some instrumental / piano albums which are very good for calming work background music!

This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.

Ed Harcourt mentioned?!

It's cool that some of the very old prototype footage and internal dev videos are seeing the light of day via this, too - often huge amounts of this material just never gets seen, and it's always interesting!
The quadruped robot at 9:09 was something I trained up using our ML framework. Fun times!

Ah awesome! I literally get hand-wavey at some point 😂
Very fun interviews, looking forward to the next two episodes! I think it represents the history pretty accurately.

Haha, I love that the game can bring this kind of meta-joy that nobody expected 😅

I feel like I've made it in game dev now, having worked on a game with such door meta that it's reached you! 😅

Ah, so you know? 👺

Fun factoid: I created and rendered the ML locomotion video embedded in that article ^_^

I ran into this in Korea, taxi driver listening to an hour long YouTube video of AI generated songs about the ocean.
Utter drivel, boring and repetitive but he didn't seem to notice or mind...

(just looked it up now and apparently they are totally unrelated!)

Now I'm wondering about the etymology of the verb "to mangle"... what came first, the device or the term?

What the hell is this, Nick?!?