tag > Generative
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Kai's Power Tools, released in 1992, introduced many innovative ideas how to playfully interact with Generative systems, that are still relevant today.
"The interface is the padded cell, you just can’t hurt yourself. Whatever you do, it invites you to play with the buttons and click on everything." - Kai Krause, early 1990s
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Spotify, a sleeping giant?
Puzzled by the lack of focus on AI at Spotify's StreamOn event today. Given the enormous potential of AI in music and its rapid advancements, it's surprising that they had zero related news, besides a brief mention of their new "AI DJ", which feels like an afterthought product.
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I'm in love with Audio Superresolution ♥️
All those music records made from 1900 > 1960 that are so wonderful but have terrible quality? Audio Super-Resolution let's us reimagine them in pristine modern quality. Wild times.
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Generative Music Tech Bro Communities
One of the prominent generative AI music communities distinctly feels like a ultra geeky tech bro festival, akin to hardcore gaming communities. Would Charlie Parker and Miles Davis (or any of the leading musicians of the past 100y) have intermingled with it?
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Enjoy some atmospheric lofi-ish music, generated with riffusion
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Generative Bedtime Stories
A simple yet powerful app using Generative Voices + GPT + Apple Watch: "Bedtimes stories" where the style of the voice & story contents are continuously adapted based on biofeedback, to optimally put you to sleep. Such "Closed-Loop Feedback" tools will become very popular soon.
Illustration from research on "Closed-loop auditory stimulation"
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CLAP: Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining: Paper - Code & Model - Dataset
#Comment: Sometimes it's the simple things that bring joy to the heart: Training an ML model on a few million songs plus meta-data, produces a formidable "neural music search & recommendation engine". A very useful component for downstream applications.
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“What we really need is a new breed of artist-computer scientist” - Michael Noll (1970)
Image: Graphics Generated by A. Michael Noll at Bell Labs in 1962 on a IBM 7094 with IBM 7151 Console.
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Companies in the Generative AI space that do not have a well-planed strategy for creating a "clean dataset" free of copyright issues, are short-sighted. Investing in a best-effort approach now can unlock significant opportunities down the line.
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Prediction: Neural Rendering will be THE topic across the games industry in 2024: generative AI pipelines that convert low quality (low FPS/poly/style) game graphics into near photorealistic ultra smooth graphics on the fly.
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Illustration from a research project i published back in 2017, that explored generating music with ML guided by Musical Novelty Search. Fun time to revisit, as the tech has gotten dramatically better since.
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Sounding The Secrets Of AudioLM - "Dive into the inner workings of Google AI’s language modeling approach to audio generation"
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Prediction: "Dance-To-Music Generation" will become a big deal on social platforms and beyond.
(Image from: https://github.com/L-YeZhu/CDCD) - #Music #ML #Augmentation #Generative
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"The act of saying very little to mean a lot" - Jeff Mills on minimal techno
#Comment: With the emerging generative AI music tools, it's now possible to convert any tune into its minimal components and play with it.
