Generating Music Tracks with Unified Representation and Diffusion Framework
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Besides, I'm not sure what's the point of this. I can see how ChatGPT can be useful for devs/writers/researchers etc. I can't imagine how this could be useful for a musician.
It is shameful to mention Bach's name in that one example.
Sure, of all of the pathways previously available for humans to make a decent living and actually put a roof over their heads and food on their tables, most of them will no longer an option in a decade or two -- it was already extremely hard to make a living as a creative, and now it will be completely impossible. Nor will anyone be able to make a living driving a truck, doing landscape design, writing ad copy, writing basic code, working in a factory, optimizing a factory, designing a factory, or building a factory. Only owning things will make you money; everyone else will be competing tooth-and-nail for the few remaining ways to serve you that still require a human. Obviously those poorsies won't be able to pursue their creative passions anymore, since they're working 80 hours per week in the vain hope that their children will be able to escape the cycle of poverty. But fuck those guys: you're rich! You can play guitar all fuckin' day if you want.
You are rich, right? Right?
I can imagine it being used to "autofill" parts of an arrangement when musicians are feeling uninspired, but I doubt it will be writing new pop songs for at least a few more years. (Though a few years is an utter drop in the bucket for humanity.)
The average song I listen to on Spotify is wildly better than what this ai is producing.
I think the best music (just like the most productive artists) will soon be humans working together with AIs. Chess went through a period like this, where the best chess games were played by humans collaborating with AIs. But I think it'll be a few years yet before you get better art without humans being involved at all.
But if you are talking about pursuing these creative passions as an end by itself, it's much less relevant.
When the incentives (money, fame, sex) are taken away from producing music, the infrastructure for teaching music will erode rapidly. If AI takes over the music industry, music teaching and production of affordable musical instruments will be gone within a generation. There will be no resources left for "pursuing these creative passions", and aspiring pop musicians will only be able to produce bad and old-fashioned sounding tripe, and be ignored.
Classical music might be an exception, since the audience cares a lot about performance, and is much less impressed by fashions and fads (sometimes to the detriment of modern composers, but that's another story).
I enjoy playing guitar, have had no meaningful tuition, and while occassionally wonder what it would be like to perform live have no realistic expectation of doing so.
The machines are taking nothing. You may allow someone to take your money for this infinitely reproducible string of notes but ultimately recorded music and it's sale is only a relatively recent phenomenon. Most modern pop music had become largely mechanical anyway.
Tribal people have amazing music, I doubt their drive was money (which didn't exist), fame (didn't exist), or sex (maybe?). Dancing is probably more important for courtship, nearly everyone sucks at that and we're still here.
> Consequently, these laws of nature have only to be discovered, and man will no longer be responsible for his actions, and it will become extremely easy for him to live his life. All human actions, of course, will then have to be worked out by those laws, mathematically, like a table of logarithms, and entered in the almanac; or better still, there will appear orthodox publications, something like our encyclopaedic dictionaries, in which everything will be so accurately calculated and plotted that there will no longer be any individual deeds or adventures left in the world. ‘Then,’ (this is all of you speaking), ‘a new political economy will come into existence, all complete, and also calculated with mathematical accuracy, so that all problems will vanish in the twinkling of an eye, simply because all possible answers to them will have been supplied. Then the Palace of Crystal will arise. Then….’ Well, in short, the golden age will come again. Of course it is quite impossible (here I am speaking myself) to guarantee that it won’t be terribly boring then (because what can one do if everything has been plotted out and tabulated?), but on the other hand be eminently sensible.
I've been engaging with GPT4 to build out an entire world of alternative hard science fiction history and it's going to be a best seller, I assure you, with zero hesitancy and full confidence. It's my idea, there's simply something so enthralling about having a "super editor" when primed with very specific prompts and understanding the boundaries of what it can't do... I'm literally 15k words into a first draft. Vomiting my ideas into words, processed through GPT to garner it's insights and suggestions, but never asking GPT to compose first drafts, has been very fun.
Those AI tools will be at the center of how we create and access music in the next decade.
It’s a bit like cars replacing horses. There will still be horses. But transportation, city/traffic rules will adjust to cars, not horses anymore.
Also those tools will most likely be open source.
As in "physically starved of the components needed to aerobically respire?"
Speak to HR. I know they're there to protect the company, but even HR may want to allow you to breathe.
Bizarre.