- We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along with a tool to explore the generated samples.
Absolutely wild that we’ll be listening to new material from our favorite artists, long after they’re dead, that they never actually wrote...
The recommendation algorithm of music - same old same old.
What I'd like is a hybrid between this type of machine learning combined with the ideas of genetic programming i.e. looking for the statistical characteristics correlated from an artist's music and then altering and combining that with other artists. That approach might lead to some truly inspiring and innovative mash-ups.
One difficulty is finding a good fitness function for the genetic combinations to automate the whole process. I've never tried genetic programming it's just based on my basic understanding of it. Seems like the only real way to measure the output would be human supervision.
- And for now, we have a rare opportunity to find out what it would be like if Frank Sinatra sang that one really intense AI-generated Christmas carol about Rudolph and human flesh for sacrifice yada yada:
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, with its red belly
The All-gracious King of all the earth,
Had a baby at Christmas time,
On Christmas Day,
A true and holy Deity,
Went down to earth,
With human flesh for sacrifice.
For sinful men such a Deity doth appear,
And wink and nod in reply,
As he winked and nod in reply,
As he winked and nod in reply
The wretched world is run by ox and ass
The wretched world is run by ox and ass,
And in vain build I.
The country song was uncanny... like I had heard it before... I could almost sing along with it!
The metal song was ... fucked up. I think the algorithm isn't capable of doing the mental arithmetic that metal musicians are doing when they play... it just sounded like mostly randomized noise... like if someone who had never heard metal before tried to play it, without understanding the details of the polyrhythms and tonics being used.
So interesting to hear how the AI "thinks" these styles of music are written!! Wild...