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My last article focused on the recent announcement of Google’s MusicLM, although not accessible to the public, due to copyright issues, it does give one new insights that AI is disrupting the value of human talent in the musical field.

Music has been core to humankind for centuries with the first piece of music, a Hurrian Hymn, discovered in the 1950s on a clay tablet inscribed in Cuneiform text. It’s the oldest surviving melody and is over 3,400 years old. Songs are human’s way of communicating stories and encompassing everything we know of as humans.

This article continues to explore the impact of AI on the music industry and looks at some of the pros and the cons, reinforcing the need for increased legal frameworks and copyright protections for musicians.

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►Agostinelli et al., 2023: MusicLM, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11325.pdf.
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As neural networks become more powerful, algorithms have become capable of turning ordinary text into images, animations and even short videos. These algorithms have generated significant controversy. An AI-generated image recently won first prize in an annual art competition while the Getty Images stock photo library is currently taking legal action against the developers of an AI art algorithm that it believes was unlawfully trained using Getty’s images.

So the music equivalent of these systems shouldn’t come as much surprise. And yet the implications are extraordinary.

A group of researchers at Google have unveiled an AI system capable of turning ordinary text descriptions into rich, varied and relevant music. The company has showcased these capabilities using descriptions of famous artworks to generate music.

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Will Google’s AI replace musicians?

No it can’t make music like Bassbin Twin because the music wasn’t programmed into the datasets from Google’s “Human experts” that limit what it can produce:

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Do we have a new Elizabeth Holmes?

To be fair, it seems JP Morgan was only able to check the emails after they acquired the platform since they were concerned about breaching data privacy prior to becoming its new legal caretakers.

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Our lifespans might feel like a long time by human standards, but to the Earth it’s the blink of an eye. Even the entirety of human history represents a tiny slither of the vast chronology for our planet. We often think about geological time when looking back into the past, but today we look ahead. What might happen on our planet in the next billion years?

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I wonder if musicians should be worried.

Google Research introduces MusicLM, a model that can generate high-fidelity music from text descriptions. See how MusicLM casts the process of conditional music generation as a hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modeling task, and how it outperforms previous systems in audio quality and text description adherence. Learn more about MusicCaps, a dataset composed of 5.5k music-text pairs, and see how MusicLM can be conditioned on both text and a melody. Check out this video to see the power of MusicLM: Generating Music From Text! #GoogleResearch #MusicLM #MusicGeneration.

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