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Perth Now
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Ryan Tedder finds AI 'amazing' for music
Ryan Tedder thinks AI can be "amazing" for music. The One Republic star - who has written and produced songs for the likes of Beyonce, Adele and Ariana Grande - finds artificial intelligence technology particularly helpful to "change his voice" when pitching tracks to other performers in order to give them a better idea of how their own version ould sound. Speaking on Smallzy's Surgery, Ryan, 46, said: "It is changing music. "It's changing it from a creative perspective, I've gotten cuts because for instance, if I'm pitching a song to a female artist, historically I would either just leave me on singing the demo or occasionally I would hire a female demo singer to come in and replace me with what they call a scratch vocal. "But with AI, I started replacing my voice probably 18 months ago. Like if I wanted to do a song with Ariana Grande, I'd sing it like Ariana in my way, process it, put the song back in and all of a sudden you're like, 'oh my god this is amazing'. "So I started pitching a song doing that and it started working to tremendous effect... holy cow, it works!" Ryan finds the technology has helped him to save a lot of time. He said: "There's a couple different AI companies that allow me to input my idea and then tell it what I want it to do, to sound like, and then it'll pop out the other end. "What that does is save me half a day of work, it's all the s*** that I would have to do anyway, but it saved me it. So that's the extent that I've used it." However, the Counting Stars hitmaker wouldn't rely on AI to write lyrics for him. He said: "But when it comes to lyrics, ChatGPT lyrics has become the joke. "Inside songwriting sessions, you'll be like, 'Man, that sounds so ChatGPT', like that has become the punchline. The lyrics are so bad it's ChatGPT."
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
China's spring festival celebration featured a fleet of dancing robots that flexed the country's advancements in robotics
China is flexing its humanoid robot advancements. A group of 16 humanoid robots performed a Chinese folk dance in Beijing ahead of the Lunar New Year. Humanoid robots are becoming a big focus for tech giants like Elon Musk and Nvidia's Jensen Huang. China touted its robotics advancements through a fleet of dancing humanoid robots at a festival in Beijing. Dozens of performers — human and robotic — took to the stage on Tuesday during the 2025 Spring Festival Gala, organized by state media company China Media Group, ahead of the Lunar New Year on Wednesday. One of the most eye-catching displays was a dance performance in which 16 humanoid robots, decked in festive red jackets, performed alongside their female human partners. The robots — tall, thin, and black in color — followed a three-minute dance routine during the performance, according to a video of the performance posted by state media outlet CGTN. Developed by Hangzhou Yushu Technology, also known as Unitree, in China's eastern city of Hangzhou, the robots kept up with the beat of a Chinese folk dance style and danced with red handkerchiefs. They spun the handkerchiefs in circles, tossed them into the air, and caught them again with precision, drawing applause from the audience. Other performers in the festival included American pop band OneRepublic, which performed its hit song "Counting Stars" — with no robots in sight. The units on stage for the spring festival were Unitree's H1 robots, the company told Chinese media outlets. Unitree has other robotic offerings, including the smaller G1, which it showcased at the 2025 CES. But the company's also known to have made other machines — including four-legged, doglike robots. In 2024, these remote-controlled dog robots were seen in footage of a military training exercise conducted by China and Cambodia. The robots, which could be mounted with machine guns, could move forward, jump, and navigate obstacles. The US military, meanwhile, uses non-weaponized robots from Boston Dynamics, per the company's website. The humanoid dance display in Beijing comes as these robots are fast becoming a priority for tech's biggest players, like Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk and semiconductor giant Nvidia. Musk showcased his Optimus humanoid robots in October, saying that they would be "the biggest product ever of any kind." In November, Tesla's Chinese rival, electric vehicle manufacturer XPeng, emerged as a competitor in the humanoid space, unveiling its nearly 6-foot-tall Iron robot. In 2023, China laid out ambitious plans to mass-produce "advanced level" humanoid robots by 2025. China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a document in October 2023 that said that the new robots would "reshape the world." Nvidia is also betting big on robots. Speaking at Computex 2024, an annual computer expo in Taipei, CEO Jensen Huang said that there would be two "high-volume" robotic products in the future — self-driving cars and humanoid robots. Read the original article on Business Insider
