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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”
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…”
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…”