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Re: Jukebox

#2
From the GitHub repo:

"On a V100, it takes about 3 hrs to fully sample 20 seconds of music."

That might make building off this project out of reach of the average engineer (you certainly cannot build that into a Colab notebook), although that necessary amount of compute is not surprising.

Re: Jukebox

#3

From the GitHub repo: "On a V100, it takes about 3 hrs to fully sample 20 seconds of music." That might make building off this project out of reach of the average engineer (you certainly cannot build that into a Colab notebook), although that necessary amount of compute is not surprising.

Isn’t that superhuman?

I would guess that on average, it takes a professional more than 36 hours ((4×60÷20)×3) to make a 4-minute audio track with original music based on given lyrics.

Re: Jukebox

#4

From the GitHub repo: "On a V100, it takes about 3 hrs to fully sample 20 seconds of music." That might make building off this project out of reach of the average engineer (you certainly cannot build that into a Colab notebook), although that necessary amount of compute is not surprising.

Isn’t that superhuman? I would guess that on average, it takes a professional more than 36 hours ((4×60÷20)×3) to make a 4-minute audio track with original music based on given lyrics.

The professional's output would be a lot more listenable, though, most likely!

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#5
I predict that in very near future you just write funny lyrics, select the style and vocalist you want and you get good sounding mediocre music.

Then we hear it in

- private events like weddings.

- social media creators make their own music to go with their funny videos. Cheap theme music for streamers and podcasters.

- Advertising. Shopping centres make lyrics that advertise products and play them to you as pop songs. Some bubs make their own songs.

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#6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t that superhuman? I would guess that on average, it takes a professional more than 36 hours ((4×60÷20)×3) to make a 4-minute audio track with original music based on given lyrics.

The professional's output would be a lot more listenable, though, most likely!

Definitely!

It’s impressive that now, they “only” need to improve the quality for it to outcompete professional musicians on commercial delivery.

Re: Jukebox

#7

From the GitHub repo: "On a V100, it takes about 3 hrs to fully sample 20 seconds of music." That might make building off this project out of reach of the average engineer (you certainly cannot build that into a Colab notebook), although that necessary amount of compute is not surprising.

Eh. It's built on Transformers, and people have already demonstrated considerable model distillation/compression on those just like every other kind of NN, and as they note, once you've trained a teacher model, you can probably train a wide flat model for similar results. (As I recall, WaveNet used to be similarly slow, but even without the parallel WaveNet retraining, with proper caching of repeated states, you could make it orders of magnitude faster and approach realtime.)

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#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.

Re: Jukebox

#10
"the top-level prior has 5 billion parameters and is trained on 512 V100s for 4 weeks"

If they used on-demand AWS instances, it would cost about 1,342,623 USD to train the top-level prior. So much for reproducing this work.

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