[tbalsam]

I can simultaneously burst a bubble and provide fuel for more -- the alignment of the intrinsic manifolds of different domains has been an interesting research topic for zero shot research for a few years. I remember seeing at CVPR 2018 the first zero shot...classifier, I think? That if I recall correctly trained in two domains that were automatically basically aligned with each other enough to provide very good zero shot accuracy.

Calling it a Deep Truth might be a bit of an emotional marketing spin but the concept is very exciting nonetheless I believe.

[nerpderp82]

It is a Deep Truth in that the universe is predictable and can be represented (at least the parts we interact with) mathematically. Matrix algebra is a hellova a drug. I could imagine someone developing the ability to listen to spectrograms by looking at them.

[justincormack]

There is a whole piece in Godel Escher Bach where they look at vinyl records as alll the soud data is in there.

[dr_dshiv]

On deep truths: a review of the concept of harmony in the universe: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240587262...

[soulofmischief]

I can't listen to them, but I can certainly point out different instruments, background noise sources and the like, and get an idea of the tone of a piece. This is easy. The hard part is distilling texture, timbre etc. of each sound.

[im3w1l]

Well it's no surprise that it kinda sorta works. Neural networks are very good at learning the underlying structure of things and working with suboptimally represented inputs. But if working with images of spectrograms works better than just samples in time domain, that is a valid and non-obvious finding.

[lisper]

My characterization of it as a Deep Truth might just be a reflection of my ignorance of the current state of the art in AI. But it's still pretty frickin' cool nonetheless.

[logicallee]

Alright so this is a pretty amazing new development. I want to tell you something about what the state of the art is in AI. When you wrote that it is a deep truth it was before I actually listened to the pieces. I had just read the descriptions. At the time, I thought that you were probably right because I was thinking that music is only pleasing because of the structure of our brains it's not like vision where originally we are interpreting the world and that's where art comes from. Music is purely sort of abstract or artistic. However, after I listened to the pieces, I realised that they really sound exactly like the instruments that are making the physical noises. For example it really sounds exactly like a physical piano. So I don't know about a deep truth, but it does seem that there is a physical sense that the music represents which it can successfully mimic using this essentially image generating capability. One thing about all of these amazing AI development, is that I still make some long comments by dictating to Google. When it first got to the point that it was able to catch almost everything that I was saying I was absolutely blown away. However, it's really not that good at taking dictation, and I have to go back and replace each and every individual comma and period with the corresponding punctuation mark. Seeing such an amazing developments happening month after month year after year it makes me feel like we are really approaching what some people have called the singularity. When I read about a net positive fusion being announced my first instinct was to think oh of course it's now that that ChatGPT is available of course announcing a major fusion breakthrough would happen within days to weeks it just makes perfect sense that AI's can solve problems that have have confounded scientists for decades. To see just how far we still have to go take a look at how this comment read before I manually corrected it to what I had actually said.

-- [I copied and pasted the below to the above and then corrected it. Below is the original version. This is how I dictate to Google sometimes, on Android. Normally I would have further edited the above but in this case I wanted to show how far basic things like dictation still have to go. By the way I dictated in a completely quiet room. I can't wait for more advanced AI like ChatGPT to take my dictation.]

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