Bookmarks - llm, music, ai, knowledge

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 TextSynth Server ts_server is a web server proposing a REST API to large language models. They can be used for example for text completion, question answering, classification, chat, translation, image generation, audio transcription, speech synthesis, … (from the creator of ffmpeg) api llm 🔖 The Spectacle of AI taking over the world A group of French scientists sees OpenAI unjustly claiming it has solved the mathematical Navier-Stokes problem and sounds the alarm. A handful of tech moguls are establishing a private monopoly over cognition and knowledge. ai knowledge math 🔖 Maintain-ability: On Life Alongside Computer Software Software maintainers exercise considerable agency over the material in their immediate care: code. However, in doing so they also find themselves having to articulate dynamic, interdependent and hybrid networks of relations which they are intimately entangled with, and whose durability depends on…