Calling Beethoven’s tenth symphony an incomplete work is an understatement; aside from a few sketches of the first movement, we have no clue to find out what it would’ve sounded like. When news broke that it was completed by AI, people feared AI would replace human musicians. But Amit Ben Dor argues that this isn’t the case. AI couldn’t have pulled off this feat without learning from previous works and without the vigilant editing of human musicologists to make it sound closer to Beethoven’s pieces Read full article here
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‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
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March 25, 2023
