I'd have to disagree. Classical music would be the LAST thing AI could do well. Hard to but technique, nuance, opinion, interpretation, style and the greatest utterances of our troubled civilization into an algorithm. Pop, dance, rap, blaalads....maybe. Classical and Jazz? Never going to happen.
Lmao, classical and jazz are the two simplest forms of music. Without any lyrics to generate its basically just generating some simple patterns in basic instruments.
> classical and jazz are the two simplest forms of music
Uh, have you actually listened to any of it? At all?
There are some non-Western traditional types of music I'd agree can have a level of complexity not usually encountered within the Western classical or jazz genres, but it's fair to say all over forms of Western music are vastly simpler in terms of harmonic language, tonality, form/ structure, instrumentation etc.
None of which I believe would make it harder for AIs to generate, as computers can manage complexity rather well.
What I expect AIs to not be good at is to conjure a truly original and distinct sound world significantly different to anything that's come before, but that still captivates audiences. Which is arguably what the greatest human composers & musicians have generally achieved, in any genre.
The "over" was a typo for "other" (hope that was obvious!). But that primarily refers to the pop/rock/folk genres.
One point I'd agree on is that it will take longer for AI technology to produce a satisfying simulation of the human singing voice than it will for purely instrumental music. In fact despite the leaps and bounds in speech synthesis I've yet to hear any sort of convincing demonstration of synthesized singing. But I can't see why there's any real reason it won't happen sooner or later.
Classical and jazz are actually the primary Western music genres where you encounter some deep music theory.
EG: Read something like George Russell's "The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization" (the basis from which modal jazz sprung, which includes one of the most famous jazz albums of all time, Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue"). Now add to the theory the ability to improvise around it as good as a Miles Davis level jazz performer can. It's not technically easy at all.
Even if other music genres are much technically easier, so much of music is the social experience anyways.
Take punk music. Though some parts got more technical later, much of it (particularly the late 1970s / early 1980s stuff) is, in my opinion, very technically easy; not too challenging to play, with very basic music structure (which was half the point, a return to rock's garage roots).
I'm guessing an AI can probably be developed (especially with today's fairly realistic sounding guitar VSTs) to make some "technically correct" old school punk rock, certainly much easier than it can be programmed to make "technically correct" modal jazz. An AI, however, cannot replicate the human parts, eg the social or community aspects of a music scene. Which with a lot of music is a huge portion of the point (certainly for punk it was).
You probably will be able to get imitation in the not too distant future. But a world where we just listen to imitations of 50s and 60s derivatives of bebop is a sad one. The most loved musicians are ones who are pushing things forward and don't just imitate Trane endlessly or whatever.
AI would need to be able to do something like create The Bad Plus in 1995. That's an even bigger mountain to climb.
We have the tech to be licensed (melodyne or zynaptiq for the polyphonic pitch data extraction), python libs for the analysis. Just needs the brains to execute it at this point...and someone to pay for this kind of compute
I don't think it is completely unreasonable in the future. But I'm personally good with what we've got in this style. We don't need another A Love Supreme. We've already got it. It was fun when Both Directions at Once was discovered, but it isn't like it was something that we needed in 2018.
People will still want to create their sound, and that'll lead to new music over time that isn't just imitation.
I have think you have defined the terms of battle. An improvisational jazz solo from a master vs one that is AI generated. I don't know this but I suspect that Monk had no idea where his solos were going when he started to play them. I like where they went, I'm just saying there were no directions.
Looks nice but I have to play with it more. It has certainly been "Appleinzed". Playlists feature single movements of pieces that make little musical sense outside of the context of the whole composition they were meant to be a part of. For new users looking to dop their toes in the Classical world the absolute first, featured piece you see is Mahler's 9th symphony. Certainly not something new listeners would likely enjoy as a starter piece. Search looks good and the browse part offers good choices of the various genres. It imported all my classical albums and only my classical albums from Apple music. Good start
Playlists feature single movements of pieces that make little musical sense outside of the context of the whole composition they were meant to be a part of.
That's a fundamental flaw of playlists, and not unique to this app or to any music created before the streaming era.
I've gotten a 7 day ban just for being a member of a group. Never posted, never up or down voted. Just a member. Banned for 7 days. I'm Reddit user 2,200 or so, never had even a warning about anything. I'm lucky they didn't permanently ban my account
That’s not a thing for the entire site, so you must be confusing a ban from a subreddit with a sitewide ban, and subreddit mods are (for some reason) allowed to do whatever toxic, evil thing they want, including banning people for subscribing to another subreddit.
Don't forget that this is a company where the CEO can apparently go in and edit other user's posts for revenge and he was put in place and tolerated because he was somehow better than the person in charge before him.
Just posting in the "wrong" sub can get you banned all across the platform (no matter what you actually said).
Of course, this violates several of the Reddit mod TOS/guidelines, but Reddit doesn't care.
Yesterday, one of the top stories in the default /r/news is the attempted assassination of a Mayoral candidate.
Today, it turns out that the guy was a far-left BLM supporter and all mentions and threads have been retroactively scrubbed from the sub.
It's just a large echo-chamber supported from the top down. Would it be exceptional to think that this information could "leak" into the hands of the echo-chamber mods?
Worse than an echo chamber, it's an intentionally curated propaganda site. At least in an echo chamber you could scroll down to see the unpopular posts.
+1 on health. I'm way older than both of you. Clean living and regular, vigorous, exercise has been the #1 key to loving yourself, confidence and mental health. Pays huge dividends later in life. As for relationships. As the old saying goes "If you are looking for a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel". Do what you want to do, travel where you want to go, join and participate in hobbies that you like. Group activities will be best (hiking, exercise, walking, tours, photography), You will meet your peers. good luck
One wonders if there is some weird software his employer installed? Probably not. Apple just dropped a new chip into a laptop designed for another chip and its not a good match. Mac controls the entire production process including software. That laptop was designed for a different chip. Everything else with the M1 is fine because the hardware was designed for the chip
God I love this thing. Now I know all the birds in my yard by sight and sound and which SOB is the one that starts the racket 1/2 hour before sunrise (looking at you Catbird)
I love it as well. It's become part of my morning coffee ritual where I listen to the birds and learn what's out there.
What I've noticed is, rather than focus on endless scrolling through Reddit etc., I'm actually very present in listening to the calls, the nuances of them, and getting familiar with the pulse of the nature around me.
This app simply gamifies that experience and let's me play audio pokemon while at the same time tuning out the rest of the world.
Good thing we have Christopher Krebs, director of the Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, on the job......Oh,wait,, Trump fired the guy responsible for defending against just such at attack? Brilliant.
While posterity often sorts things out what a list like this misses is how big, and important, some records were when they came out. U2's Joshua Tree dropped quite a bit but it was an absolute monster when it came out.
Ah, simpler and better times. When I pretty much brough my own music to work and had a dedicated directory. I was amazed that a program could list the title and artist of the song.
