| ▲ | gcanyon 6 hours ago |
| A nit, but given that this is from a major corporation, and LLMs are supposed to be em-dash-happy, it's surprising (disappointing?) that the announcement uses: > audio-like music That's a hyphen. What's "audio-like music" -- music that is almost sound but not quite? Music made from raw audio? :-) |
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| ▲ | istjohn 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yeah, I think that sentence was supposed to be: Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio--like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue--to be simultaneously generated with the world. |
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| ▲ | _heimdall 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's a proper use of a hyphen though, an emdash would be wrong. |
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| ▲ | gcanyon 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | But it's not, unless you know what "audio-like music" is? | |
| ▲ | smallerize 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't think so, and in fact an em dash would be much less confusing. audio, e.g. music audio — like music | | |
| ▲ | _heimdall 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Oh maybe I did just misread the intent of the sentence? I read it as "something like audio" but yeah that is confusing since that would be all music. | |
| ▲ | pixelesque 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's a suffix word though, not a pause. Hyphens should be used to link compound/suffix words, not em dashes. | | |
| ▲ | gcanyon 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Agreed that hyphens should be used to indicate compound words, but you're saying that "audio-like" is an intended compound word? Then it's an adjective, modifying "music"? What would that mean? | | |
| ▲ | _heimdall 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That was my initial reading and I may have just misread it as them intending it to be compound rather than an aside modifier. | |
| ▲ | pixelesque 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well okay, not a "compound" per se, but it's a prefix/suffix, which similarly should use hyphens. | | |
| ▲ | IanCal 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think the disagreement here is not whether that’s how you should use hyphens but whether that’s what was intended at all. The term audio-like music makes no sense. | |
| ▲ | LordDragonfang 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think you're fundamentally missing the point being made here. Yes, "-like" is commonly used as a suffix, in which case a hyphen is correct. But describing music as "audio-like" is clearly nonsense (music isn't "like" audio, it is audio), so that's not the sense in which it's being used here. For clarity, the full sentence is: > Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue to be simultaneously generated with the world. |
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| ▲ | oblio 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why does everyone hate colons? audio: music, ... | | |
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| ▲ | manbash 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue to be simultaneously generated with the world. Looks like a hiccup, which created an odd and ambiguous sentence. |
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