“Since launching the Gemini app, we’ve built tools to encourage creative expression through images and video. Today, we’re taking the next step: custom music generation. Lyria 3, Google DeepMind’s latest generative music model, is rolling out today in beta in the Gemini app.”
I used this prompt to generate a Lyria tune:
“Create music for a wildebeest using a laptop to compare a latent fingerprint to a tenprint fingerprint”
Google’s response:
“’I’ve created a unique atmospheric track for you that blends electronic data-processing sounds with the deep, resonant textures of a wildebeest’s world. You can play the music directly here in our chat!”
Considering his connection to erotic love, it’s no surprise that the parentage of Cupid (or Eros to the Greeks) is mysterious, but at least some sources consider Cupid to be the son of Venus (Aphrodite) and Mars (Ares).
By Joachim Wtewael – Scan from a magazine article by Marion Cornélie van Oudheusden: Joachim Wtewael: de lotgevallen van Venus en Mars, Oud-Utrecht 92, June 2019, 65-69, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79575481.
Which of course makes me think of Paul McCartney and Wings.
But not the song that leads into a song about Jimmy Page.
I think of the reprise. The song that leads into a song about ancient…Egypt. (Hathor?)
If the identity you’re protecting is important, knowledge-based authentication (KBA) isn’t sufficient to protect it. There’s an example of a KBA failure that I originally discussed in 2024 in a “The Wildebeest Speaks” article, but since I’m citing it again on LinkedIn I might as well mention it here.
Consider the following four criteria:
The person is a famous musician.
The person uses a particular first and last name.
The person is of a particular nationality.
The person plays a particular musical instrument.
That’s not enough to identify an individual.
Just ask the famous musician Mick Jones, the English guitarist.
Here he is (on the left) playing guitar for the song “Urgent.” (Or, more accurately miming to a previous recording. The recording included Junior Walker and Thomas Dolby, but the video did not.)
And here is Jones again, playing guitar and singing “Should I Stay Or Should I Go.”
“Wait a minute, John!” you’re saying. “Those are two different bands and two different people!”
“By 1974 we found in Spooky [Tooth] that we were getting a better reception in the States than back home in Britain, so made a collective decision to relocate to New York….
“[After Gary Wright quit Spooky Tooth] I [Mick Jones the English guitarist] was left high and dry in New York, and without a clue as to what my next move was going to be. I seriously considered returning to England and starting over a whole new career, such as going to medical school or becoming a dentist. The second option was the most attractive to me, because it took less time to qualify and paid good money.”
But dentistry’s loss was music’s gain, as Jones assembled two other British people and three Americans into a band called Foreigner.
And considering that the other Mick Jones was kicked out of the Clash, we can figure out how THAT band got its name.
Anyway, “Mick Jones the English guitarist” remains my favorite example of a knowledge-based authentication failure.
Grok.
Because you need multiple ways to verify and authenticate identities. I should know.
“National Blonde Brownie Day on January 22nd recognizes a treat often referred to as blondies.”
Blondie and Blondies.
Now if you had asked me on January 21 what a blonde brownie is, I wouldn’t have known. Now I do…and you will also.
“[A] a blonde brownie is similar to a chocolate brownie. In place of cocoa, bakers use brown sugar when making this delicious brownie, giving it a sweet-tooth-satisfying molasses flavor!”
Just one change and you get something that looks and tastes different.
As you know, one of the seven questions I ask before writing client content is about the emotions that the piece should invoke.
Look at the seventh question I ask.
Should prospects be angry? Scared? Motivated?
Or, can a change in the emotional content of a written piece evoke great paralyzing fear?
(Maybe those tasty brownies contain deadly bacteria.)
If you change the emotion words in a piece of content, you get something that looks and tastes different.
The third version, using Frank Zappa’s “A Little Green Rosetta,” was only created as an Instagram story and will therefore disappear from public view by Tuesday evening.
I guessed that’s supposed to encourage you to subscribe to the Bredemarket Instagram account, but I don’t think Green Rosetta is a strong selling point. Too bad “Watermelon in Easter Hay” doesn’t fit the reel subject matter.
On Monday afternoon, I was writing “draft 0.5” of a document for a Bredemarket client. Among other topics, the document noted how the quality of biometric capture affects future identification capability.
Although when I was originally conceptualizing the silhouette, I was thinking of the instrumental interlude toward the end (about 4 minutes in) of Elton John’s “I’ve Seen That Movie Too.”
Yeah, that song’s over fifty years on. Something I will address on my personal LinkedIn profile later this evening.
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