Tony Bennett has died (goodmorningamerica.com)

Well, as the saying goes, "Death Comes In Threes..."

I wonder who's next?

> Lady Gaga made a good and good-hearted call to preserve and promote his music by working on two albums together.

It was great listening, and somehow the first I ever heard of him, he truly was a gem

> https://www.heyartifact.com/ Is a group trying to facilitate this.

In my time as a software engineer I've seen this pitched dozens of times.

I think it's a noble cause but I've seen it fail so many times it's discouraging.

I personally was hoping the advent of LLMs would make this more scalable since it could be a 'bot' doing the interviews and people might have less social anxiety about talking to a machine than another person.

Anyway if you're involved with the company I hope if successes, good luck!

There was an incredible segment, I believe on 60 Minutes or CNN, of Bennett's final performance in New York City, assisted by Lady Gaga (I don't recall if she sang with him or not). This was whilst he was strongly affected by dementia, and though he showed confusion and cognitive difficulty before the performance, and didn't remember it the next day in a scene shot in Central Park, he absolutely came alive and hit the notes when on stage.

I've spent a couple of minutes trying to track down the segment on YouTube without luck. It's well worth watching however.

As someone who's not especially a fan of either Bennett or Gaga, I came away profoundly impressed by both.