Whispers of the Lost Hartford: An AI Opera Experience
AI tools are used to create a short libretto for a classic opera given a frankly ridiculous situation. Two models generate the text in tandem. Another model acts as a reviewer to evaluate the result. Illustrations are generated using an image generator. Snippets of music are created from parts of the text using a music system. A podcast is then generated discussing the quality and historical ramifications of the opera, using yet another model. It's AI models all the way down, with appropriately tragic results.
The idea is to evaluate the limits of what multimodal AI tools can and can not do, both individually and together.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
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