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Nano Banana for me. After the initial wow phase it's meh now. Randomly refuses to adhere to the prompt. Randomly makes unexpected changes. Randomly triggers censorship filter. Rand…

From the paper: "A single run of the DGM on SWE-bench...takes about 2 weeks and incurs significant API costs." ($22,000)

Yup, they are called GCCs (Global Capability Centers).

The result announcement blog post sounded too hypey and gave the impression that he changed his tone but for the last one year he has been consistently saying that LLM+"discreet pr…

Dark mode finally!!! This was the only bummer for me all these years. Not anymore!

We can extend this phenomenon to all of knowledge. You ask ChatGPT something and it gives you some very generic 10-point blogspam-esque answer. You immediately think ChatGPT is int…

His book "The Algebraic Mind" goes into great detail about connectionism (neural networks), symbolic systems, limits of connectionism and proposals to integrate neural networks wit…

I think her target audience is extremely broad. From teenagers to middle-aged people. Plus her latest album was marketed aggressively.

Those models are not trained on short loops. They are trained on whole songs just like image generation models are trained on whole images. And yet they struggle to repeat sections…

AI is bad at music also. Even the state of the art transformer models can't produce more than a few seconds of coherent melodic phrases.

This one suffers from the same problem that previous audio generation methods had. It correctly mimics the piano timbre but there is no global structure in the generated melodic li…

Lots of weird artifacts which are very hard to fix. The argument that users can now generate professional grade art by bypassing artists entirely feels so strange. I have access to…

JSPatcher is similar to Max/MSP. Even the UI design is a blatant ripoff. There are already full blown online DAWs like BandLab, Soundation, Amped Studio etc.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22448933

Interesting. Is there anywhere I can listen to the music generated by your algorithm?

Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications Professor Xavier Serra[1] is a highly respected veteran in the field. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Serra

Care to elaborate?

Magenta Studio https://magenta.tensorflow.org/studio

Who gets to decide what is the "point" of music? Music is a twenty billion dollar industry. An AI system that can spit out highly "realistic" and "pleasing" music can change the mu…

This might be onto something! Just listen to this from 30s: https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/pop-rock-in-the-6355437/... Such coherent and pleasing melodic phrases in the style …

Judging by the four provided melodies: 1) the notes have very little rhythmic variation. 2) the melodies don't seem to have any concept of metre or metric accent.