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Saturday, May 2, 2020

On a musical note: Jukebox - OpenAI's new experiments in music generation create an uncanny valley Elvis

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OpenAI's new experiments in music generation create an uncanny valley Elvis 

Author:
Devin Coldewey

Published:
TechCrunch, 30 April 2020

From the article:
“AI-generated music is a fascinating new field, and deep-pocketed research outfit OpenAI  has hit new heights in it, creating recreations of songs in the style of Elvis, 2Pac and others. The results are convincing, but fall squarely in the unnerving ‘uncanny valley’ of audio, sounding rather like good, but drunk, karaoke heard through a haze of drugs.”

To read this article:
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/30/openais-new-experiments-in-music-generation-create-an-uncanny-valley-elvis/

Original paper:
Jukebox: A Generative Model for Music

Authors:
Prafulla Dhariwal, Heewoo Jun, Christine Payne, Jong Wook Kim, Alec Radford & Ilya Sutskever

Available: https://cdn.openai.com/papers/jukebox.pdf