"Imitation Game" based on the introductory chapter of Alan Turings same-titled idea. https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238

Lyrics: ChatGPT-4o (7th generation)
Song: Suno (24th generation)
Cover: Midjourney (10th generation)

## Verse 1 ##
Can machines think?  
What do you say?  
Let’s redefine,  
The question in a new way.  
A voice, a mind,  
Behind a screen,  
You ask, you judge,  
But is it human or machine?

## Chorus ##
Question, answer, conversation,  
Man or machine, it’s speculation.  
Words on screen, no hesitation,  
Truth or trick, it’s calculation.  
Question, logic, duplication,  
Is it real or simulation?  
Am I man or automation?  
The question's in your hands.

## Verse 2 ##
Ask me anything,  
How do I feel?  
You won’t see me,  
But my words seem real.  
"I love, I think,  
I understand,"  
But is it code,  
Or from a human hand?

## Chorus ##
Question, answer, conversation,  
Man or machine, it’s speculation.  
Words on screen, no hesitation,  
Truth or trick, it’s calculation.  
Question, logic, duplication,  
Is it real or simulation?  
Am I man or automation?  
The question's in your hands.

## Bridge ##
Ask away, ask it all,  
Can I rise, or will I fall?  
Machines may speak, machines may play,  
But can they think, or just obey?

## Chorus ##
Question, answer, conversation,  
Man or machine, it’s speculation.  
Words on screen, no hesitation,  
Truth or trick, it’s calculation.  
Question, logic, duplication,  
Is it real or simulation?  
Am I man or automation?  
The question's in your hands.

## Outro ##
Can machines think?  
Will they pass the test?  
You ask, you probe,  
But can you guess?  
Human mind,  
Or lines of code?  
The answer’s yours,  
Which path you chose?

Imitation Game

"Attention Is All You Need" is based on the same titled by Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin, Jun 2017. This break-through paper first explored the transformer architecture that today's generative AI models are based on. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

Lyrics: ChatGPT-4o (3rd generation, 2 refinements)
Music: Suno (39th generation)
Cover: Midjourney.com (132nd generation, 3 refinements)

## Chorus ##
Attention, attention, attention is all you need  
Attention, attention, attention is all you need  
Attention, attention, attention is all you need  
Attention is all you need

## Verse 1 ##
Recurrent nets, convolution’s past,  
Encoder-decoder, it couldn’t last,  
We found a way to break the mold,  
Attention’s here, the future's bold.

No loops, no cycles, no delay,  
It’s parallel, we’re on our way.  
Translation done in half the time,  
Efficiency, it’s so sublime.

## Chorus ##
Attention, attention, attention is all you need  
Attention, attention, attention is all you need  
Attention, attention, attention is all you need  
Attention is all you need

## Verse 2 ##
From English to German, we're on top,  
28.4, we never stop.  
From English to French, we hit the scene,  
41.8, we're lean and mean.

Just three-point-five days, eight GPUs,  
State of the art, no need to choose.  
Less time to train, more time to fly,  
Attention's here, and it’s so high.

## Bridge ##
No more recurrence, no convolution,  
We found the answer, the revolution!  
Simple networks, now it's clear,  
Attention’s all you need, my dear.

## Chorus ##
Attention, attention, attention is all you need  
Attention, attention, attention is all you need  
Attention, attention, attention is all you need  
Attention is all you need

## Outro ##
No loops, no nets, just focus clean,  
The future’s bright, a brand new scene.  
We’re transforming, built to lead,  
Attention, attention, attention is all you need!

Abstract Music

Attention Is All You Need

Based on the paper "Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People" by Joon Sung Park, Aaron Shaw, Benjamin Mako Hill, Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Robb Willer, Percy Liang, Michael S. Bernstein. arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

Lyrics: ChatGPT-4o (1st generation, 1 refinement)
Music: Suno (59th generation)
Cover: Midjourney.com (3rd generation, 0 refinements)

##Verse 1##
Plugging in, the future’s here,  
A digital world, crystal clear.  
Behaviors learned, the code will show,  
A mirror of us, we start to grow.  

##Chorus)##
Simulated minds, turning true,  
Echoes of me, echoes of you.  
Simulated minds, we combine,  
Patterns of life, redefined.  

##Verse 2##
Stories told through wired streams,  
A world alive with human dreams.  
No divide, the lines will blur,  
A map of us, in ones and zeroes sure.  

##Chorus##
Simulated minds, turning true,  
Echoes of me, echoes of you.  
Simulated minds, we combine,  
Patterns of life, redefined.

Simulated Minds

Based on the paper "Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality" by Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Saran Rajendran, Edward McFowland III, Lisa Krayer, Ethan Mollick, François Candelon, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Karim R. Lakhani, Katherine C. Kellogg

Lyrics: ChatGPT-4o (5th generation, 4th iteration)
Song: Suno (193rd generation)
Cover: Midjourney (2nd generation)

##Verse 1##
AI’s here, and now it grows,
Guiding hands where knowledge flows,
Some things it helps, some things it breaks,
But we decide which path it takes.

##Chorus##
Centaurs, they share the ride,
With human minds right by their side,
Cyborgs blend in every task,
Together, we take off the mask.

##Verse 2##
Consultants work, they push ahead,
AI whispers in their stead,
Some take the reins, some let it steer,
Both find success when AI’s near.

##Chorus##
Centaurs, they share the ride,
With human minds right by their side,
Cyborgs blend in every task,
Together, we take off the mask.

##Bridge##
With AI, we reach new heights,
But only when we share our lights,
Some step back, some dive in deep,
Which way will you choose to leap?

##Verse 3##
Faster moves and sharper minds,
AI helps us cross the lines,
When we merge, the work’s complete,
Human brains and code compete.

##Chorus##
Centaurs, they share the ride,
With human minds right by their side,
Cyborgs blend in every task,
Together, we take off the mask.

##Outro##
Half machine and half of me,
Together we find synergy,
Centaurs and Cyborgs in the game,
Both with power, both the same.

Centaurs and Cyborgs (Klezmer Version)

Lyrics: based on a Linkedin post by a Growth hacker, shortened
Production: Suno.AI, 38th generation
Cover: Midjourney, 23rd generation, 5th iteration


Grammarly just raised $1B. 
That's not a round.
That's a threat.
This isn't late-stage capital.
It's go-to-market capital.

A growth play.
All in.
Just fuel.

They're following the line:
ElevenLabs, Runway, Synthesia.

All pouring capital into one thing:
YOUR potential user's attention

And their machines aren't just sharper.
They're fast-moving and well-funded.

Growth is a weapon.

Outsmart 
or get outrun.

Growth is a Weapon

Lyrics: based on a Linkedin post by a design professional, shortened & lightly edited
Production: Suno.AI, 28th generation
Cover: Midjourney, 17th generation



I deleted everything.
Every note in Obsidian.
Every carefully crafted "second brain."
Every Apple Note.
Every to do list.
Every article on my "read later" list.
Every productivity system l'd built over years. 

Gone in seconds.
And I felt zero panic.
Just an overwhelming sense of relief.

Here's what l've learned
about our obsession with "capturing everything":

The Promise
Build a networked archive
so vast
it can answer questions before you ask.
Never forget.
Never lose an insight.

The Reality
My "second brain" became a mausoleum.
A dusty collection of old selves,
frozen curiosities, 
and deferred thinking.

But I already know what I want to read.
I know the shape of my attention.
I don't need a database
to prove I have taste.

We don't think in folders.
We think in stories,
connections,
experiences.

The ideas that matter will return.
If they don't, they didn't.

My new system is no system
I don't want to manage knowledge.
I want to live it.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do
is deleting everything
and start anew.

My Second Brain

Lyrics: based on a Linkedin post by an advertising executive, shortened
Production: Suno.AI, 28th generation, 6th iteration
Cover: Midjourney, 17th generation

Ideas are no longer gold.
They’re sand.

Infinite.
Ubiquitous.
Identical.

Anyone can generate sand now
with just a few prompts.

What matters is
Who turns it into glass? A diamond.
Or – dare we say – a diamond kaleidoscope?
(Yes, please. That’s something we haven't seen in a while.)

So more than ever:
Curating beats creating.

The machines are producing.
Tirelessly.
Endlessly.
Realistically.

But here’s the real difference:
Not who produces. But who chooses.
Not who delivers. But who decides.

Prompting is easy. Curating?
Taste is the new leadership.

T A S T E ✨

The The Papers is a conceptual project to create unedited, fully AI-generated but human prompted and curated music. The lyrics are based on abstracts of influential science papers on AI, ML and LLMs. We call it "Abstract Music".