Google Magenta

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5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2017 by Doug Eck · across every show →

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Jul 21, 2017 positive

Assertion Supported

Eck: Untrained listeners rated Magenta compositions as more Bach-like than Bach

“When we put these tunes out for, like, untrained listeners to listen to, they sometimes voted them as sounding more Bach-y”

Doug Eck Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 22:14 Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator

Jul 21, 2017 neutral

Assertion Supported

Eck: Google Magenta's NSynth cannot synthesize audio in real time yet

“Right now, it's quite slow to listen, so to speak. We're not able to do things in real time.”

Doug Eck Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 3:26 Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator

Jul 21, 2017 positive

Disclosure

Eck: Adding Deep Q-learning rules made Google Magenta's music noticeably catchier

“And we had, I thought, some very nice generated samples of music that were pretty boring with the LSTM network. But then the LSTM network trained additionally using a kind of reinforcement learning called deep Q learning to follow some of these rules. The gene…”

Doug Eck Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 33:51 Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator

Jul 21, 2017 negative

Opinion

Eck: Google Magenta's early music generation models were primitive RNNs

“We put out some models that were, you know, by any reasonable account primitive, I mean, kind of very simple recurrent neural networks that that generate MIDI from MIDI”

Doug Eck Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 3:54 Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator

Jul 21, 2017 neutral

Insight

Eck: AI music tools require strong human improvisation skills

“But if you don't have the musical, so basically it's the musician bringing all the skills to the table. Right. So like, even, even with the primitive sequence generation stuff, like it's still been interesting to see that it's musicians with a lot of musical t…”

Doug Eck Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 14:44 Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator

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