Off the top of my head, I can see 3 ways to get music out of the current chat
interfaces:
1) algorithmic music - E.g. C programs like this:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int t) {for (t=0;;t++) putchar((((int)(t/12)>>8&t) - (t<<4)) &
(((int)(t/6)>>6&t) + (t<<2)));}
The code I've gotten out of ChatGPT has been irritating. But I've never asked
it to write something like that. Or maybe something in PureData or Common Lisp
Music. Given the above program as a prompt, Bard gave me a slightly different
one and confidently proclaimed that it was in a different key with some extra
notes. But it's actually just a *fuzz* version of mine ... which even though
Bard's gaslighting me, it's still a cool tune. 8^D
2) Time series. If you ask Bard to tell you what the next number in this
sequence is, it'll tell you: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34. If I get the
chance later, maybe I'll runs some other sequences by it and see what it can
tell me. But there's no reason a next-token-predictor shouldn't be able to
generate music straight out of the gate.
3) Notes as tokens, rather than signals/numbers as tokens. I'm sure such
exists. But the closest I've come is https://www.w3.org/2021/06/musicxml40/ I
don't see any reason why these machines couldn't compose MusicXML in the same
way they can compose source code.
On 4/5/23 22:15, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Yes, if a large language model is trained on all works of Mozart and
contemporary artists like Haydn, it should be able to create a new piece of
music which sounds almost like Mozart. Finally we can listen to Mozart's lost
28th piano concerto or Beethoven's missing 33th piano sonata o_O
-J.
-------- Original message --------
From: Prof David West <[email protected]>
Date: 4/5/23 1:55 AM (GMT+01:00)
To: [email protected]
Subject: [FRIAM] AI possibilities
Based on the flood of stories about ChatAI, it appears:
- they can 'do' math and 'reason' scientificdally
- they can generate essays, term papers, etc.
- they can engage in convincing dialog/conversations
- as "therapists"
- as "girlfriends" (I haven't seen any stories about women falling in love
with their AI)
- as kinksters
- they can write code
The writing code ability immediately made me wonder if, given a database of
music instead of text, they could write music?
The dialog /conversation ability makes me wonder about more real-time
collaborative interaction, improv acting / comedy? Or, pair programming? The
real-time aspect is critical to my question, as I believe there is something
qualitatively different between two people doing improv or pair programming
than simply engaging in dialog. I think I could make a much stronger argument
in the case of improv music, especially jazz, but AIs aren't doing that yet.
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