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YouTuber creates fake Nirvana song using artificial intelligence

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We're calling markov chains AI now?

Only the lyrics have been generated. Everything else you hear is just the musician, trying their best to sound like nirvana. No AI wizardry involved.

The lyrics sound less like an unreleased nirvana song, and more like a cut up of their previous songs. Which is to be expected when you feed a relatively small corpus of lyrics into a markov generator.

I get that this is just supposed to be fun. My point is that the title is misleading.

Yeah, it's the reverse of regular AI where things that were impossible just become 'this thing that isn't AI'

It's pretty decent imitation, but yeah I was hoping the whole song was AI. Then again most AI songs are still pretty lame.

While I agree with your sentiment that this is clearly overblown, and perhaps the usage of “AI” these days to describe simple systems in general, your stance is too strong. Markov chains/models have always been considered traditional AI tools. At least it was taught to me when I did my degree in AI twenty years ago, using the first edition of AIMA.

(There’s a whole topic called Hidden Markov Models, and algorithms for learning them using only observed events, like Baum-Welch.)

There are plenty of people doing fun things using texts to build fun predictive models (look at Botnik Studios), but that also doesn’t mean it’s not AI.

I totally agree with you but still.. it makes me wanna kill myself so it seems it's working..

I was hoping the whole song/audio was generated. Looks more like fragments of existing nirvana lyrics re-arranged into a semi-coherent ordering. I recognize almost all the lyrics from existing songs.

It’s only the lyrics that are generated (and he’s just using markov chains?) , the music seems to be written by the guy doing them based on the article.

So barely anything to do with AI?

You can listen to actual AI-generated songs in the style of Nirvana with the OpenAI Jukebox: https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=807313705

Very cool, but the two Nirvana tracks on there are pretty terrible.

I didn't like this as much as some other AI songs, notably Metallica [1]. It seems this model wasn't trained long enough as this song is the In Bloom/Breed riff with some lyrics and the general structure of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTG1Nb1hND0

Does anyone remember Microsoft Songsmith? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHduATM-o7M

Also, to follow up, the introduction campaign for Songsmith is one of the worst things I've ever seen https://youtu.be/3oGFogwcx-E

I thought you were exaggerating. I was wrong.

Click bait title, it just created some lyrics, I was hoping for a deepfake of the voice like "Voice synthesis" channel on YouTube.

Hey if you're interested in human voice synthetized and mimicked by AI check out this awesome project https://www.descript.com/lyrebird-ai

Overdub allows you to replace recorded words and phrases with synthesized speech that's tonally blended with the surrounding audio.

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