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Google’s AI Invents Sounds Humans Have Never Heard Before
- dkural 9y agoTo me it sounds exactly like they're playing the two instruments on top of each other, if not 'side by side' - which is to say, not like something I've never heard before.
- dsmithatx 9y agoAgreed, I was quite disappointed. I actually thought we would here new sounds humans have never heard before. This was more like two instruments picked from an orchestra or, playing two bank settings on a synth on a split keyboard.
- multi_tude 9y agoThe instrument blending is unique, but agree that this was utterly underwhelming.
- ccvannorman 9y agoThese were utterly unimpressive sounds. I can replicate these sounds in a few minutes mixing on my 10 year old $120 Yamaha keyboard, if it's not in one of the built-in 999 x 999 sounds (because I can combine two sounds easily using the built in functionality), then I can mix it myself -- but it is already so close to the built-in sound. Will be excited if an AI can make instruments that move me.
- letier 9y agoI'm asking myself if a synth is just a boring application for a model like this. But maybe it would be possible to implement a new kind of efficient sound compression algorithm.
- bykovich2 9y agoThese sound like bad synths.
- DanBC 9y agoIt's a shame the article uses soundcloud clips, because I suspect the end sounds aren't the impressive bit. I think it's the user interface that's the interesting bit here. > In addition to the NSynth “slider” that Engel recently demonstrated at Google headquarters, the team has also built a two-dimensional interface that lets you explore the audible space between four different instruments at once. And the team is intent on taking the idea further still, exploring the boundaries of artistic creation. A second neural network, for instance, could learn new ways of mimicking and combining the sounds from all those instruments. AI could work in tandem with AI. A video of this would have been much more useful to me.
- pgodzin 9y agoLooking forward to a more interactive demo of this tech. The headline is ridiculous though - I can use a RNG for a handful of frequencies and create a sound humans have never heard before.
- ender89 9y agoIn related news, google has created the first electric hipster.
- nzjrs 9y agoThese sort of headlines make it clear we are in a goldrush right now. What a ridiculous title.
- dmix 9y agoAny article about AI contains tons of hand-wavey hyped tech. That's nothing new. The website for their project [1] is much more toned down, so you can blame the journalist or Google's PR team for pitching an interesting angle. [1] https://magenta.tensorflow.org/nsynth https://magenta.tensorflow.org/nsynth
- vectorEQ 9y agooh wow. music producers invent sounds no one heard before all the time >.> ever listen to neurofunk? ;D Why dont they make an AI that does something useful for a change instead of one that can look at cat pictures and produce jibberish!
- undersuit 9y agoChildren are seldom useful in the first 13-21 years of their life, why do AIs have to be useful before they are ready?
- thomasdziedzic 9y ago> Children are seldom useful in the first 13-21 years of their life [Citation Needed]
- marchenko 9y agoGiorgio Moroder did it first.
- dmix 9y agoThis is off topic but the website the author linked to for "Moogfest" has a very unique design: http://www.moogfest.com/ http://www.moogfest.com/ Haven't seen anything like that before. Scrolling marques everywhere. I wonder if this will be a new trend.
- fenwick67 9y agoIt sort-of is a new trend. http://brutalistwebsites.com/ http://brutalistwebsites.com/