Thoughts From The Static

 Ok, I'm back.   There have been a lot of developments in AI in recent weeks, including the big flap over Google's Gemini producing nonsense (and not just on portraits of historical figures).   A new AI-driven text-to-speech system, Aura, was recently made public by Deepgram, allowing people to chat with an AI that responses with a human voice: https://deepgram.com/product/text-to-speech   And the state of Tennessee in the United States passed a law allowing musicians to sue if their voice has been used by AI.