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by SnowingXIV 1189 days ago
I've been using ChatGPT to work on music theory and it's been pretty great, the responses are detailed and often have been correct and useful. (Don't ask it to tab anything. You'll get some rather hilarious results though). I've thrown some soft balls over to Bard, and have been really disappointed. Its responses are much less detailed and thought provoking. Also wrong. I started out by asking Bard the notes in the major scale of each key.

| C | C D E F G A B | | G | G A B C D E F | | D | D E F# G A B C | | A | A B C# D E F# G | | E | E F# G# A B C# D | | B | B C# D# E F# G# A |

For those are wondering it only got C right. The rest are wrong. (G should have an F#, D should have an F# and C#). Not only was this wrong but I asked for interval patterns for different scales and those were off. It started the natural minor with a half-step/semi-tone when it begins with a whole-step/tone.

I'll give it credit for being really quick and loading though.

3 comments

Would you please share some of the music theory things you've been using ChatGPT for?
Been reading that really quick responses. I think Google would be happy if the the chatbot is so really slow because people have been using it a lot.
Judging by the non-C scales, obviously it just loves Mixolydian mode :)