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Interesting stuff. I did some searches on some songs I like and the general gist was right. I tried it on American Pie and it seemed to match my understanding
by allenu 4y ago
Interesting stuff. I did some searches on some songs I like and the general gist was right.
I tried it on American Pie and it seemed to match my understanding of the song, but this line stood out a bit:
> Additionally, the line “Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey ‘n’ rye/ Singin’ ‘This’ll be the day that I die’” is a direct reference to Buddy Holly’s song “American Pie” which features the same line.
I wasn't aware Buddy Holly wrote a song literally called "American Pie" as well. Did some searching and I suspect it likely meant to refer to the Buddy Holly song "That'll Be the Day", which absolutely does not feature the line "Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey 'n' rye".
- noduerme 4y ago"American Pie" is an interesting test, in that so many people have read so many explicit references into it over time (many misinformed) that it would be almost impossible for a human relying only on the internet to guess which parts of the lore were accurate. A language model could be expected to regurgitate just as much nonsense as it had read on the subject. "Visions of Johanna" is another epic that combines personal memoir, social commentary and political manifesto, and it's even more opaque. The legendary discussions around the meanings of these songs have gone on for 50 years.
- notahacker 4y agothat's probably a window into the correspondence between the data corpus and the output. Lots of references to borrowings from Buddy Holly in American Pie, lots of references to individual lyrics being references, not enough consistency in discussions of references for the AI to mimic them rather than putting together fragments randomly in a way which makes sense as syntax but not as a description of the song...