Warner Music just signed an algorithm to a record deal — what happens next?

prowla

It could be one of many recent pop songs; I expect they'll take that as a compliment, but it isn't!

darthed1981

sg1300t said:

roberty said:

darthed1981 said:

Sporky said:

It's quite possible that it'll be better at it than people are. 

It's very possible.  AI for example can learn what works and what doesn't harmonically, and try new things.  The new things that work inform it's learning, and so on.  

It can't know what the music it creates sounds like to a human though, so it cannot judge what works and what doesn't

Current gen generative AI has no cognitive modelling. When it draws a hand it has no idea what a hand is, or how the bones in it move, it is just copying other pictures of hands, with predictably patchy results. It has no critical faculty to judge its output

This is true, however metrics such as number of listens, and the distribution of how much of the piece was listened to (e.g. how many got to 50%, how many to 75% etc etc) will be used to train it. Rather like how companies such as Blizzard measure the effectiveness of their games...

Exactly - we are talking billions of streams, a staggering amount of statistical data, and of course aggregating statistics is something computers are superb at.