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by diydsp 3396 days ago
I can save people a lot of time: It's not about the information on the medium, the .wav file the algorithm produces. It's about the context in which the information is presented.

AI-generated music will go along with generic food and other products. Listen already to the generic soundtracks on most Kickstarters. It works because they're paired conspicuous consumption. Just use the phone app "SoundBot" to make a generic chord progression with 1/8th note rhythms.

"Compelling" (a la Magenta) art and music will have to understand the context, have a perspective and understand what is ineffable and attempt to convey it. That's an unbelievably large machine learning task, having essentially no boundaries and with very little data to source from.

Nevertheless, as a company, Amper may create some useful musical man/machine collaboration tools.