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It's the great-grandfather of Miku Hatsune! It's interesting to see how far singing programs have come. For those not in the know Miku Hatsune is a Vocaloid, a singing program that uses technology from Yamaha.
Example of Miku's singing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqdB0yspQVA
Just as creepy, too.
Techno-pop hasn't progressed much since this recording, has it...?
I find it a little creepy.
Are you sure this isn't the latest music video by the Rentals?
Is this the same song sung by HAL?? Then it's obvious why mr Clarke chose it.
Is this what inspired Clarke to use this song for HAL?
I can't let you sing that, Dave.
OK but its " Daisy"
Sometimes, it seems, IBM was one step ahead of HAL.
@ AirPillo - according to Bell Labs, yes.
http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1997/march/5/2.html
Reminds me of my old Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, way back in the day. Had a music program for it, and with the speech synthesizer attached, it could sort of sing. Only sort of.
I just spent a great moment along my brother, showing him this. I am now trying to show him how beautiful and interesting can technology be. We are going to need a lot more of hackers in this country, very soon.
The first computer my grandfather had would sing this song. It's probably my first memory of what a computer could do. (I was young.)
Techno-dub group Dreadzone sampled this on their album Biological Radio:
http://blip.fm/~frghg
Literally one step ahead . . .
H -> I
A -> B
L -> M
Arthur Clarke said this was just a coincidence, but I'm afraid I doubt that.
aw. that made me cry tears of cute. literally.
Now we just need to program them to actually feel love. Oh wait, Furbies have already been invented, my bad.
Yes, I was alluding to Clarke's disclaimer about HAL being one step ahead of IBM (I suspect it is in *Lost Worlds of 2001*).
This was also parodied in Futurama (Love and Rocket - 2002). Most people I know never got this joke.