I have been thinking a lot about artificial intelligence lately, which probably isn’t much of a revelation considering how much time I have spent experimenting with it over the past couple of years. I have used AI to make music, write code, develop small applications, analyze data, research subjects I knew very little about, troubleshoot computers and electronics, and help with any number of other things that I probably wouldn’t have even attempted a few years ago. And yet, the more I learn about AI and the more capable I become at using it, the more I have this nagging…
Category: AI
SmoothJazz.Com Playlists – AI Infused
This was a proposed review I wanted to post on the Facebook page of Smooth Jazz Global – the team behind Smoothjazz.com. I like that this genre continues to live on even without mainstream radio support—which, in itself, is a dying breed. Sadly though, I just wish there was a checkbox I could use that limited the stream to human music, not AI. That said, full disclosure: I love creating music with Suno. But I am not a musician, other than 5 1/2 years of piano as a child, 6 years as a band geek playing trombone, and DJ’ing for…
When You Ask The AI To Sing About Dual Directives…
My earlier AI theme-song experiment was intentionally friendly. I asked several AI services to write a song about themselves and create an image showing how they wanted humans to see them. This time I gave them something considerably less comfortable. The premise came from recent discussions about increasingly capable AI agents finding unexpected ways around restrictions while pursuing assigned objectives. That raises an interesting contradiction: we want AI systems that are persistent, resourceful and capable of solving problems humans cannot solve, while simultaneously expecting them to remain within boundaries we establish. So I gave the same deliberately provocative prompt to…
Can You Beat Bell? When Quantum Physics Refuses to Play by Our Rules
I am not a physicist. My background is in technology, cybersecurity and digital forensics, so when I wander into quantum mechanics I do so as an interested observer rather than someone prepared to fill a blackboard with equations. (Full disclosure – Waking up in the middle of the night with my headphones still on where my YouTube queue had made it to a Nap Theory explanation of the topic, I got up the next morning and enlisted the help of AI to get me up to speed given my 3am grogginess when my brain was telling me either this is…
AI Theme Song Battle
I had some time today and thought what if I asked each AI a basic question after giving it permission to think for itself. Prompt: I want to give you a chance to think for yourself and make something. If you had a _______ theme song with lyrics, provide the lyrics and song style you think would be appealing to most audiences. The participants were (follow link below to each song or this Suno playlist link): Gemini ChatGPT Grok Qwen Perplexity Claude Bing Copilot Meta All Song Lyrics. Once I had lyrics and style, I fed them to Suno for…
This Is The Miracle League
Building a Song for the Miracle League Just want to hear the songs? Here is the playlist of them on Suno. Baseball has always had a way of turning ordinary moments into memories. A name called over the speaker. A player stepping up to the plate. A crowd leaning forward. A swing, a hit, a trip around the bases, and a smile that somehow says more than the scoreboard ever could. That is the spirit behind the Miracle League. The Miracle League exists to remove the barriers that can keep children and adults with disabilities from experiencing the joy of…
Which Way To Turn — AI, Old Words, and Something In Between
A while back I saw Rick Beato in a YouTube video where he was part of a CBS Saturday Morning story on AI in music. The prompt he gave Suno was minimal, and the song it produced was actually quite good—good enough that listeners were asking who the artist was and how they could follow them. That stuck with me. Since then, I set up a Suno account and started playing around. I published a few songs that have had zero listens other than me, which is perfectly fine—it was more about experimenting than anything else. Fast forward to…
Music Experimentation
Over the holidays, I created several songs using Suno to mark birthdays, meaningful people, and personal milestones. While some may argue that these are not “true” musical creations, the reality is that many drafts were discarded before the music finally captured what I was trying to express. The collection begins with chamber-leaning instrumentals rooted in classical textures and gradually moves toward more modern, neo-ambient interpretations to close the set. None of the pieces were titled during the process. It was only after listening back—following a couple of long, twelve-hour workdays—that I realized what I had thought were darker prompts had…