Google's AI music generator MusicLM is explored in this episode, and we test our ability to distinguish AI from human-made music.

Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership explores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Host Dr Craig is joined by Lord Taylor to discuss today’s topic on Deefake satires, AI chatbots and the impact of AI on pop culture today. As well as our big announcement of our own experiment in this area starting from next show.

Episode Links

• Text-to-audio generation is here. One of the next big AI disruptions could be in the music industry - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-04/music-industry-artificial-intelligence-text-to-audio-generation/101926950
• MusicLM: Generating Music From Text - Very impressive audio samples : StableDiffusion https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/10mekik/musiclm_generating_music_from_text_very/

• MusicLM: Generating Music From Text dataset https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/
• Google's AI music generator MusicLM has impressed listeners. Can you tell if these tunes were created by humans or an algorithm? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-15/google-ai-music-quiz-musiclm-humans-artificial-intelligence/101967746

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Exploring AI and storytelling on today’s show, Dr Craig and Lord Taylor further show their use of Google Colab to create absurd media. They discuss their attempts to use AI to generate a 1950’s style Sherlock Holmes radio drama, which results in an unintelligible piece of literature.

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Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership explores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Host Dr Craig is joined by Lord Taylor to discuss today’s topic on Deefake satires, AI chatbots and the impact of AI on pop culture today. As well as our big announcement of our own experiment in this area starting from next show.

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• The Hitchhicker https://youtu.be/8eZ1sImDFwE
• Glenn Gers 6 Essential Questions. https://youtu.be/F7i3w6XW_2Q

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Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership explores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Host Dr Craig is joined by Lord Taylor to discuss today’s topic on Deefake satires, AI chatbots and the impact of AI on pop culture today. As well as our big announcement of our own experiment in this area starting from next show.

Episode Links 

• The Last Three Presidents Play ‘Minecraft’ Together in a New TikTok Deepfake Satire | Cracked.com https://www.cracked.com/article_37138_the-last-three-presidents-play-minecraft-together-in-a-new-tiktok-deepfake-satire.html?newsletter-cat=comedy
• Minecraft “Joe Biden blows up Trump's Minecraft House (AI Voice Meme)” https://youtu.be/cKuV2gQeZzw
• The Presidents discuss their top 5 animes https://youtu.be/IkaAZE_UGMo
• The Presidential Zomboys vs. Der Eisendrache https://youtu.be/aoMH0rF2z9g
• NFL Fox Sports at Hiroshima Crazy Footage (AI Voice)  https://youtu.be/_mJUf3noWjQ
• Replika users fell in love with their AI chatbot companion. Then they lost them - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users-fell-in-love-with-their-ai-chatbot-companion/102028196
• Nick Cave slams AI bot ChatGPT: 'A grotesque mockery of what it is to be human' | Mashable https://mashable.com/article/nick-cave-chatgpt

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Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership exlpores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Today’s topic explores the film 'Prey (2022), the latest addition to the Predator film franchise. Host Craig Norris is joined by guests  Max Travers (adjunct associate professor – Sociology, UTAS), and Michael Sweet (PhD candidate – PhD student in law researching alcohol control in the Northern Territory.

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• - Prey trailer: https://youtu.be/wZ7LytagKlc
• - Max Travers University profile:  https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/sociology/max-travers
• - Michael Sweet Research profile:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Sweet-4

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Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership exlpores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Today’s topic explores the mid-point and the 1951 radio drama ‘Three Skeleton Key’.

Media news - testing the realism of Jack’s death in James Cameron’s ‘Titanic’ and Cate Blanchett on Tassie footy. 

Episode Links 

• - Three Skeleton Key (1950) https://youtu.be/P2zT2DRFJxE
• - James Cameron Went And Did A Scientific Test To Prove That Jack Had To Die In 'Titanic' https://uproxx.com/movies/james-cameron-scientific-test-titanic-jack-death/  
• - MythBusters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPDxtclZzVU  
• - Cate Blanchett on Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Go to Tasmania and they play REAL football’ https://www.themercury.com.au/entertainment/cate-blanchett-on-jimmy-kimmel-go-to-tasmania-and-they-play-real-football/news-story/56e906a2c10cedb85128f76859cc5d21
• - Eric Edson - Mid-point, going into act-3. The heroes darkest hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6tXEwqkSnc   

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Guest Eilidh Doureen author of ‘Two bodies three fools' and host Craig Norris about the Mary Robinette's MICE theory of writing short stories. We then use this theory to analyse the classic 1950 radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key'.

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• Three Skeleton Key (1950) https://youtu.be/P2zT2DRFJxE
• ‘Two bodies three fools' https://www.amazon.com.au/Two-Bodies-Three-Fools-romantic-ebook/dp/B0BBV1S1NJ
• Short Stories — With Special Guest Instructor Mary Robinette Kowal https://youtu.be/blehVIDyuXk

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Host Dr Craig Norris discusses the concept of the midpoint sequence and the point of no return in the classic radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key'  (1950).

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• Three Skeleton Key (1950) https://youtu.be/P2zT2DRFJxE
• Eric Edson - The Point Of No Return For Your Hero - Midpoint Sequence: https://youtu.be/ASvHCXt8RU8
• The heroes darkest hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6tXEwqkSnc
• Austin Butler's voice coach explains why he sounded like Elvis in his Golden Globes speech - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-17/austin-butlers-voice-coach-on-why-he-still-sounds-like-elvis/101857896
• ‘The Simpsons’ Dominates Disney+, Embarrasses ‘The Evil Corporation’ | Cracked.com https://www.cracked.com/article_36649_the-simpsons-dominates-disney-plus-embarrasses-the-evil-corporation.html?newsletter-cat=comedy

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Host Dr Craig Norris discusses the creative meme work of Hannah Rogers with 'sad book memes' and the concept of the inciting incident in the classic radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key'  (1950).

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• Sad Book Memes https://www.instagram.com/sadbookmemes/
• Inciting incident by Jerry B. Jenkins https://youtu.be/hOSP7yM1fQs

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Host Dr Craig Norris discusses the new works that have entered the public domain in 2023 and the opening act of the classic radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key'  (1950) in terms of setting up the life of your characters and building up the story.

Episode Links

• Gaming Like It's 1927 https://itch.io/jam/gaming-like-its-1927
• Check out Duke's Public Domain Day article or Copyright Lately's round-up
• Sherlock Holmes joins a first Oscar winner and the 'ice cream' song in the public domain https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/public-domain-2023-sherlock-films-books-songs-cec/index.html
• Australia: National Library releases out-of-copyright works https://www.nla.gov.au/stories/news/2022/public-domain-2023#
• 3 Mistakes Screenwriters Make In Act 1 That Ruin A Screenplay - Michael Hauge https://youtu.be/RGYHGc0pTeI

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