Ronald Drysdale's Blog (4)

What can happen if you turn the power of AI loose on traditional Scottish folk songs, Ballads, Poetry etc?

I had a few hours spare, so I thought I would experiment with an update/remix of the poem "The Lads of Wamphrey" by Walter Scott into rock ballad style music.

The AI I used was Suno, online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUTS2jHA3H0

Lads of Wamphray historical notes:

This…

Ai is advancing rapidly

Here is some incredible artwork from Kelly Boesch (Ai Art) - the music and video are wholly Ai generated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZExXLvI2Cs&list=RDMMYZExXLvI2Cs&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv9Dwo8x64U

However, apart from artwork, Ai may soon start…

Hi all,

The Familysearch website has introduced a new experimental AI search facilty that renders old, largely unintelligible, hand written documents 'searchable', available online here:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/

It is still under development and can only be used on a [fairly large] selection of Familysearch records but already it is yielding impressive results -…

Just came across some decent free family tree software, not a trial, fully featured & with no 'premium' extras. Has some useful features, charts & reporting options, also mapping if you download the free Legacy GeoDB add-on.…