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What can karaoke teach us about AI?
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What can karaoke teach us about AI?

Karaoke's disruption of the music world presaged AI's disruption of creative fields today.

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Mar 26, 2024
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Interviewing Negishi for “Pure Invention” in 2008. (Photo: Hiroko Yoda)

Shigeichi Negishi, who created the world’s very first karaoke machine, passed away on January 26th. I spent quite a bit of time with him in 2018, when I was working on the karaoke chapter of Pure Invention. He was 95 then, but felt easily two decades younger, slightly hunched, perhap…

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