OpenAI introduces Jukebox, a new AI model that generates genre-specific music - The Verge

OpenAI introduces Jukebox, a new AI model that generates genre-specific music - The Verge

AI generates new songs by dead artists

Do you want to hear a brand new Frank Sinatra song? Beware: it’s about how Christmas time is hot-tub time, and it was written and sung by a computer. Software by machine-intelligence powerhouse OpenAI can produce songs in the style of any existing act, although it requires human help to compose the lyrics. Contrary to earlier attempts, OpenAI’s Jukebox is trained with sound files rather than musical scores, and its output is a sound stream. It’s technically impressive, but for now the results sound vaguely like the overlapping stations heard on a poorly tuned radio. Jukebox’s creators acknowledge that “there is a significant gap between these generations and human-created music”.

The Verge | 3 min readReference: OpenAI blog and preprint