F or Benoit Carré, the future revealed itself in six notes. In 2015, Carré, a cerebral, bespectacled songwriter then in his mid-forties, became the artist-in-residence at Sony’s Paris-based Computer Science Laboratory, headed by his friend Francois Paçhet, a composer and leading artificial-intelligence researcher. Paçhet was developing some of the world’s …
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No matter where you hang out online, you’ve probably seen friends sharing colorful, intensely stylized illustrations of themselves. The images weren’t made by human artists but with an app called Lensa, from the photo and video editing company Prisma Labs. While Lensa has been available since 2018, it recently added …
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