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Infinite Bad Guy

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Re: Infinite Bad Guy

#51

This is brilliant, more info at places like this: https://www.nme.com/news/music/billie-eilish-launches-infini... I was brought up on The NME and the rock press and love left-field bands and I've always felt Billie (and her brother) fit comfortably into that tradition despite (or partly because of) their terrific pop sheen. Great talent at a very young age; this next decade will be hers.

“...which begins with the singer’s original video for the song and, with the help of AI, has synced up thousands of covers...” Isn’t this just a timestamp sync for certain search parameters? What has artificial intelligence got to do with this?

These days "with the help of computers" doesn't have the same cachet. I did notice that the videos tend to follow instruments and styles. So it may be a bit more than just temporal synchronization.

Re: Infinite Bad Guy

#53
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I'm old enough to resent my younger zoomer siblings' taste in music, and have once been crushed to realize a song on the radio I was enjoying was a Billie Eilish song. Yes, I am a cranky millennial. We are old enough to be cranky now. At first I didn't understand what this website was, but once I realized everything was synced up and thought about the technical work to make it all work... this is brilliant.

In an alternate youniverse, you delighted in the invitation to shed a prejudice and emerge a little shiny from your old skin.

Ugh, cheerful alternate-youniverse versions of myself are the worst >:(

Source: am also a grumpy millennial.

Re: Infinite Bad Guy

#54
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

“...which begins with the singer’s original video for the song and, with the help of AI, has synced up thousands of covers...” Isn’t this just a timestamp sync for certain search parameters? What has artificial intelligence got to do with this?

It could be a buzzword but I think it'd be fair to assume that different covers of the same song are slightly out of sync at different points. So the algorithm (AI or not) would look for signature beats in the original and match them with beats in a close range in the other songs.

I would bet it's using NLP (AI) and looking for lyric matches based on the captions. You could likely make a cover with an incorrect beat but the same lyrics and the AI would match to it.

Re: Infinite Bad Guy

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I'm old enough to resent my younger zoomer siblings' taste in music, and have once been crushed to realize a song on the radio I was enjoying was a Billie Eilish song. Yes, I am a cranky millennial. We are old enough to be cranky now. At first I didn't understand what this website was, but once I realized everything was synced up and thought about the technical work to make it all work... this is brilliant.

Nice.

Re: Infinite Bad Guy

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It could be a buzzword but I think it'd be fair to assume that different covers of the same song are slightly out of sync at different points. So the algorithm (AI or not) would look for signature beats in the original and match them with beats in a close range in the other songs.

I would bet it's using NLP (AI) and looking for lyric matches based on the captions. You could likely make a cover with an incorrect beat but the same lyrics and the AI would match to it.

I bet not. I've been doing NLP for just a few months but my experience is that its fickle at best. Especially with a song that is so repetitive you'd be looking for (n) instance of (n) words.

Also, most of these videos arn't going to have human transcribed lyrics which would further increase the difficulty.

Why not just take all the data they have and throw it into a model to predict time.

Re: Infinite Bad Guy

#58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would bet it's using NLP (AI) and looking for lyric matches based on the captions. You could likely make a cover with an incorrect beat but the same lyrics and the AI would match to it.

I bet not. I've been doing NLP for just a few months but my experience is that its fickle at best. Especially with a song that is so repetitive you'd be looking for (n) instance of (n) words. Also, most of these videos arn't going to have human transcribed lyrics which would further increase the difficulty. Why not just take all the data they have and throw it into a model to predict time.

On second run it looks like you're right. They have categories that have no lyrics at all.

Re: Infinite Bad Guy

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post #42

I'm old enough to resent my younger zoomer siblings' taste in music, and have once been crushed to realize a song on the radio I was enjoying was a Billie Eilish song. Yes, I am a cranky millennial. We are old enough to be cranky now. At first I didn't understand what this website was, but once I realized everything was synced up and thought about the technical work to make it all work... this is brilliant.

Eilish sounds like repackaged/updated trip hop, so as a gen x'er it feels familiar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyFIIUKAOE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIpv2VTwyJA

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