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by rm999 3066 days ago
In one project at a previous job we were able to pinpoint the genre, mood, instrumentation, etc of any new song with (usually) better-than-human accuracy in milliseconds using deep neural networks. This is better in pretty much every way than the 1000s of music experts that are employed by competitors and vendors.

https://tech.iheart.com/mapping-the-world-of-music-using-mac...

Not to mention personalized recommendations, which basically aren't possible at scale without some level of ML:

https://tech.iheart.com/mapping-the-world-of-music-using-mac...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12269568

The thing to keep in mind is every machine learning practitioner who is worth their salary is doing stuff like this. A lot of our every day work isn't as sexy as teaching a computer Go, but it's game-changing to most industries.