Always Be Curious #157: AI clones, AI brain scans, and making quantum computer music

This week in ABC: follow a reporter at VICE through the process of making an AI clone of herself, Japanese researchers process brain scan data with an AI, and a quantum computer can make music.

While generative AI tools like ChatGPT (natural language generation) and Stable Diffusion (image generation) may be hyped, they are certainly no less amazing. That’s because they rock at their core competence: they use an enormous data set (in the case of ChatGPT: 300 billion words) to train a neural network so they can answer your specific query with a…