Here’s another beautiful sunrise in Costa Mujeres. It was a beautiful, peaceful early morning. I’m always surprised by how few people are on the beach to enjoy it. I’m fine with that.
A few days ago, Google released a new music-generation model, Lyria 3, to its Gemini AI platform. The press release described and illustrated the process of uploading a single photo and writing a song from it. So I uploaded the photo above and asked it to write a song that fit the mood. I did it twice, with two different results. Look at the photo above as you listen to each and judge the quality yourself.
Aurora’s First Light
First Light Lullaby
These photos, however, are not AI. 🙂
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The music seems well suited to the pictures. I would not use the music much myself. Usually I look at pictures and videos silently. And as the mother of a musician, I think this might be competition. (Although John would probably like it and find a use for it.)