Find the name which doesn’t fit the row:
Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, AI, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Yes, you are right: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, he’s russian composer, not german one.
How do you think, this “joke” in the near future won’t be joke anymore or are we overestimating the power of the AI which is, slowly, but confidently, on the way of taking over some job industries?
A group of scientists, who worked with an AI start-up Playform AI have an intricate thing to come up with: now we are able to listen to the unfinished symphony of the music composer, who died 194 years ago.
Ludwig van Beethoven left 9 symphonies and yet one completely unfinished piece: the 10th symphony was only some raw sketches on different sheets.
The team consisted of Austrian composer Walter Werzowa, Mark Gotham, a computational music expert, Robert Levin, musicologist at Harvard University. Why do we need this kind of crew?
In fact, music is very similar to language. That’s why natural language processing model is very close to what was done in this case. In the same way as when you allow the predictive text feature to end one word you’ve started typing or predict the next one – it usually works, but several words after it starts writing complete gibberish – the same case here.
The problem here was that Ai couldn’t manage to continue an uncompleted piece of music beyond a few seconds.
But in the same way music uses mathematical structure but the language doesn’t.
They used everything what Beethoven hypothetically heard growing up, because obviously there is much more examples of texting than Beethoven’s music.
What’s interesting, is that they’ve tried to take in count the fact composer’s complete loss of hearing in the end of the life, because it’s influenced his music in the way of gradually adding more lower notes to his compositions, that he could hear more clearly.
But in the end of the day the symphony is written, and you can listen to it .
Open question number one: should Beethoven, who in this case wrote less than 5% , be in credits as an actual author? Is it even should be considered as one of his compositions?
Open question number two:
What does it mean for the future of music?
Werzowa says about it in podcast: “Like every tool, you can use a knife to kill somebody or to save somebody’s life, like with a scalpel in a surgery. So, it can go any way … I think if we could sit back on a Saturday afternoon in our kitchen, and because maybe we’re a little bit scared to make mistakes, ask the AI to help us to write us a sonata, song or whatever in teamwork, life will be so much more beautiful”.