The melody is all over the place, and the rhythm is hard to tap a foot to, but one thing is certain: it's absolutely convinced that Christmas trees get decorated with flowers. Lots and lots and lots of them.
Artificial Intelligence Generates Christmas Song from Holiday Image
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#12This is definitely now my favorite Christmas song. While obviously not a masterpiece, it's incredible how far this tech has come. It's almost got a Dadaist feel to it. Can't wait to see where this ends up in ten years! I can foresee music labels buying a few of these AI's, getting some pretty people with decent voices and sending them on tour.
Earlier this year, an AI-written script was made into a short film. It's got the same sort of absurd vibe.
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-th...
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#13Music for people who hate music.
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#14Chilling...
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#15It kind of feels like a five-year-old trying to make a song. Which seems good - now they only need to improve the mechanisms and who know, maybe we'll get to the point when it's a ten-year-old?
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#16I'm not sure that Christmas songs generally use the blues scale, I wonder what made them choose that for the melody?
I suspect it's an easy way to get something that won't sound completely dissonant, especially because you can use the same blues scale over multiple chords.
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#17Is it just me or it really sounds like a randomly generated chord progression that barely makes any musical sense?
"Musical sense" is a pretty subjective thing, which I suspect is one of the primary issues with artificial creativity.
That said, assuming training data comes from music with progressions that could be broadly classified as 'popular music,' you would expect to find some regression to the mean with more production and deeper training data. (to abuse a phrase)
One other issue that I think will come up is how insular and unevolving artificial creativity will be if it's based on present music for training data. What has historically moved creative trends is disruption; sometimes it's a slow burn and sometimes it's a few catalysts, but experimentation in artificial creativity will be hard to come by early on but quickly needed if it's to supplant human creativity.
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#18It kind of feels like a five-year-old trying to make a song. Which seems good - now they only need to improve the mechanisms and who know, maybe we'll get to the point when it's a ten-year-old?
Instead of five, don't you mean "two to three"? And under that comparison, isn't it scary how much it does sound that way? Like a kid who hears words together but don't know what they mean yet? (and doesn't really get the cultural things around it.) To me it sounds like a quite musical 2-3 year old stringing words together. Doesn't it strike anyone else that way?
These things are going to grow up very, very soon! We know that. It's scary.
You're watching a two-year old. It's interesting to think about what it will be like when it's ten, sure.
But what will really blow your mind is what it'll be like when it's 23. This is happening right now, before our eyes.
I cannot overemphasize that any large server farm at Google or Amazon is doing more, and much faster, processing than a human brain's neural net. Human brain is 86 billion neurons with an average of 7,000 synaptic connections each. That is a huge number. But they are firing at 15-300 herz (because they're at biological speed, instead of lightspeed like our CPU's) - which is 7 orders of magnitude slower than our silocon. Our brain is about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g) and uses some 20 watts.
It's not a question of "if" a server farm will have as powerful neural nets. It's a question of "when".
(Also although we won't be using it, the entire source code for the human brain has to be strictly less than 700 MB, because the fully sequenced human genome which obviously encodes the full human mind is less than 700 MB uncompressed.)
Guys, we are at an incredible pivot point in human history. We are coming up with computerized brains with in some ways comparable architecture to humans, and they are doing human activities.
Today, in 2016, there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of server rooms all over the world that have more than enough computational power to do in real-time what a human adult brain does in real time - but we lack the software.
when we see advances like this in artificial intelligence, this is scary.
We're all but looking at the intellectual output of a two year-old in the field of music.
every single day AI results are astounding. this is it.
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#19This is not even a proper song.
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#20When I think that this month I'm going to hear "Last Christmas" by Wham! in every store I set foot into, this new masterpiece doesn't sound so bad.