See Jacob Collier play with Google's MusicFX DJ. youtube.com/live/IUQW5LgBZvQ He basically uses MusicFX as a sort of silly sampler. It's a more interesting use than whole-cloth generation. This is what he comes up with in about two hours youtube.com/live/IUQW5LgBZvQ?si=neSJnd8eUKZU8cNh&t=6047. Now that I notice a Transcript button on the YouTube page, I should be able to pull out some interesting quotes without undue effort (ordered thematically):
Let's see if we can mine some from the depths of the unknown brain... youtube.com/live/IUQW5LgBZvQ?si=khhFJ02r2gdXMtDl&t=1462 .
Do you ever just find everything's infinite? Do you ever find that everything contains infinite potential? [Welcome to exploring a latent space] > youtube.com/live/IUQW5LgBZvQ?si=VlVQNoVItFhBgnZS&t=5928 > .
Okay I have a plan. Just kidding I don't have a plan > youtube.com/live/IUQW5LgBZvQ?si=yXDHDA8uGSUSBAfX&t=4995 > .
The moment everything starts to be really realistic it's just not interesting... So many things like this that I've tried are designed to directly imitate things: it's like do this exact thing like this person would. But the thing I love about this is that it's yeah it's designed to not do that. It's designed to be strange, and it's just fun > youtube.com/live/IUQW5LgBZvQ?si=SVpsAXq8P-VUA47y&t=3306 > .
You, the person, get to apply your own taste to it because the AI doesn't have a point of view like that. It doesn't have taste. You have taste, but you can still use all these materials to make your thing more interesting > youtube.com/live/IUQW5LgBZvQ?si=TeZxailbomhdNN0N&t=5588 > .
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Didn't watch the whole thing, but this was delightful. It's always so fun to see Jacob Collier work, and I like his approach to using genAI here. I'm on the fence about this technology because I think replacing artists is a dumb idea. This gives a good counter-example, of how an artist can use genAI in a way that doesn't really take away from their authorship and agency 🤔
Yeah, my whole point is that a lot of these generative AI demos are cute but miss the point for the very detailed things that artists really want to do. For example, Collier just got a Grammy for his "Bridge Over Troubled Water" arrangement in which he uses "AI" to clean up one of the vocalists. youtube.com/live/I8DWlis-MEY?si=RM643MGYEwGrJVdy&t=970
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Thinking of a friend, does lighting for digital effects, whose studio invested a lot of time and effort building final pass denoiser to fix artifacts that come up mostly from floating point rounding during raytracing. I had the impression that it's a diffusion model very much like all those text-to-image generators and upscalers.