The quality of this has become amazing. Clear voice with expression. Fitting instruments. Good mix.
Creativity though? These non-poetic songs (I heard “Lorem Ipsum” the other day) are a fun novelty because a machine creates this in no time. A skilled musician will do something similar.
Innovation? Deepmind showed new creative approaches. Will this happen with music too? Or will they just regurgitate styles from the past?
It’s definitely good for Muzak, where you want a non-offensive, slightly upbeat, and not-too-reconizable background. And perhaps as an idea generator.
> Innovation? Deepmind showed new creative approaches. Will this happen with music too? Or will they just regurgitate styles from the past?
That's an often overlooked difference between earlier projects like DeepMinds AlphaGo and the current genAI craze. With something like Go you can dial in the exact parameters to solve for (winning a game of Go) and then let the AI experiment and find novel ways to get there. But with image generation, or music, or language models the measure of quality is too vague to define in a way that the AI can directly optimize towards, so they're instead just fitted to existing examples.
Creativity though? These non-poetic songs (I heard “Lorem Ipsum” the other day) are a fun novelty because a machine creates this in no time. A skilled musician will do something similar.
Innovation? Deepmind showed new creative approaches. Will this happen with music too? Or will they just regurgitate styles from the past?
It’s definitely good for Muzak, where you want a non-offensive, slightly upbeat, and not-too-reconizable background. And perhaps as an idea generator.