It’s not strange that artificial intelligence will go into music, given how quietly it encroaches on every aspect of our digital life, from essay writing to therapy sessions to create unique art. It also comes as no surprise that tech juggernaut Google would arrive first.
According to reports, users would be able to put in more detailed hints mentioning genres and styles or even make compositions based on a heard or whistled tune. The AI bot could produce “original” music from text and auditory cues. The next software is internally referred to as MusicLM.
The details were published in a study on Jan. 26 that identified MusicLM as a “model creating high-fidelity music from text descriptions” that “generates music at 24 kHz that stays constant over many minutes.” According to the study, songs may be made from intricately crafted captions like these:
A video game’s primary music. It has a quick tempo, a positive vibe, and a memorable electric guitar riff. The music has startling noises like cymbal crashes, or drum rolls yet is repetitious and simple to recall.
Songs are constructed using additional timed text prompt sequences, a sound library, and other AI prompts derived from sources like art archives.
Examples of the AI-generated songs have already been uploaded to Google’s Github page as part of a test release of the MusicCaps dataset, which consists of 5,500 music-text pairs.
The introduction of such a platform will unavoidably spark new discussions about the role of artificial intelligence in intellectual property theft and copyright infringement. These discussions will be sparked by many artists and art repositories that have yet to authorize the use of their works in creating AI bots like these. Further advances in AI also present distinct concerns for the people who create the technology, as exploited workers bear the burden of data mining and moderation.
Right now, Google AI music producer won’t be available anytime soon due to continuing issues with cultural programming biases, bugs, and plagiarism that need to be fixed before launch, according to the firm.