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Re: Jukebox

#41
Holy crap.

> From dust we came with humble start; > From dirt to lipid to cell to heart.

That's not just a passable lyric. I think it's downright _good_.

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#42
post #8

Well I'm glad to know that music won't be made by AI anytime soon, if this is the best we can do. :) This project is very interesting, but it goes to show just how far we still have to come before AI is replacing creativity.

I think you're way off base. I feel like the remaining gap, in comparison to the progress it represents, is more like dotting i's and crossing t's at this point.

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#44

Holy crap. > From dust we came with humble start; > From dirt to lipid to cell to heart. That's not just a passable lyric. I think it's downright _good_.

> Lyrics from “Mitosis”

> Co-written by a language model and OpenAI researchers

Researchers co-wrote all the lyrics. This is one place where reading the fine print matters. Super impressive stuff, but I also wonder what had to be tweaked.

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#45

Holy crap. > From dust we came with humble start; > From dirt to lipid to cell to heart. That's not just a passable lyric. I think it's downright _good_.

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Re: Jukebox

#46
So a lot of this sounds muffled and compressed... I wonder if something like the equivalent of a super-resolution or denoising autoencoder for music would work here as a post-processing step.

Like, just pass through the network w/o style transfer, use the input and output as a training dataset.

Re: Jukebox

#47

Holy crap. > From dust we came with humble start; > From dirt to lipid to cell to heart. That's not just a passable lyric. I think it's downright _good_.

Just know that: much of the stuff OpenAI and other research orgs put out (including mine) are heavily cherry-picked. Most of the time its pumps out gibberish, but in the off chance it doesn't it gets used as marketing material.

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#48

Holy crap. > From dust we came with humble start; > From dirt to lipid to cell to heart. That's not just a passable lyric. I think it's downright _good_.

That part of the lyrics was actually the prompt from Heewoo :)

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#49
post #8

Well I'm glad to know that music won't be made by AI anytime soon, if this is the best we can do. :) This project is very interesting, but it goes to show just how far we still have to come before AI is replacing creativity.

I think you're way off base. I feel like the remaining gap, in comparison to the progress it represents, is more like dotting i's and crossing t's at this point.

I mean I listened to the metal track, and I usually like metal, and I couldn't stand it. The guitar was just ... wrong. The lyrics were unintelligible, even though I had them right in front of me.

The pop song in the Katy Perry style was sort of intelligible but quite repetitive (moreso than most pop songs).

The other songs had similar issues.

I agree that it's quite an achievement, but it clearly suffers from the uncanny valley.

Re: Jukebox

#50
In my view, attempts like this misunderstand much of the point of music. That is, to communicate aspects of human life that are deeply interwoven with facts and experiences outside of the music itself.

I don't see how any of that will be possible before we have some kind of general AI, and in the meantime I think these attempts will continue to be semantically empty, even unsettling in their emptiness.

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