July 8 2021, 10:27 am | BY Ricki Green | 5 Comments
Uncanny Valley, winners of the inaugural AI Song Contest 2020, have joined forces with this year’s competition organisers to create a constantly evolving remix of the 2021 contest entries. This year’s teams submitted a selection of melodies, vocals, beats and other song components to Uncanny Valley’s cutting edge AI music engine to create a collaborative remix.
Since winning the contest last year, the Australian company has focussed its efforts on developing the technology behind their AI engine ‘MEMU’.
Says Charlton Hill, co-founder, Uncanny Valley: “It is an intuitive and adaptive musical engine, which generates musical ideas for use in DJing, music production, songwriting, streaming, gaming and more. The applications for MEMU are as endless as the human need for music.”
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Adrian Sharpe was found deceased by staff at Andover s Best Western in August 2020. Credit: Street View A woman has criticised a government body’s “failure” to help her remove her ‘abusive’ brother as their mother’s carer. Speaking at an inquest into the death of her brother, Adrian Sharpe, Honor Dubois said that she was “very disappointed in the Office of the Public Guardian [OPG]” after her brother, who she claimed assaulted their mother while acting as her full-time carer, was left with power of attorney following ‘delays’ at the OPG. “I asked the OPG for help on multiple occasions and they failed,” she said. “They had the reports to get him removed, which they said would take three months, but then they said because of Covid it would be delayed by half a year. I felt it was an excuse as the report is sitting there for them and I’m disappointed they dragged their feet for such a long time.”
Tributes have been paid to a “happy-go-lucky” great-grandfather who worked at Portals for 40 years after he passed away following a fall. Raymond ‘Ray’ White was walking to his local post office in Picket Piece, near Andover, when he “lost his footing” and fell on the way. The former Portals worker was taken to hospital in Basingstoke, where he developed pneumonia, attributed to the fall, and passed away on July 14, 2020. Area Coroner Jason Pegg gave a verdict of accidental death, saying that “were it not for the fall it is unlikely he [Mr White] would have died when he did.” The court heard that on June 22, 2020, Mr White had been walking to the Picket Piece Post Office from his home on Ox Drove, and was said to have been crossing the Locksbridge Park estate at the time.
The Enham Trust has managed to secure supplies to begin vaccinating its residents after its first Covid cases led to its CEO making an impassioned plea online. Heath Gunn took to social media to call for the trust, which supports around 6,000 people across the South West, to be prioritised in the vaccination schedule so that it could provide vaccines to its residents with “complex disabilities”. Following his call being taken up by the local MP, and with plenty of public support, the charity is now able to begin vaccinating residents and staff within the week. Heath said: “I am warmed by, and thankful for the support following my video post on social media and pleased to confirm we have now been allocated times for vaccines earlier than we had feared.”