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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The end of human-generated music in movies, TV and more? Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:26:00 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: <20240613222600.00000da8@example.com> References: <20240613170301.00000cbd@example.com> <6umcnbNnIf41P_b7nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 04:26:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8efbc785259c1d0202aeebb1519922a7"; logging-data="2838593"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX199Rc8HD0JvBRAiDEQtO3H9gTYk3co4W/s=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z5qdz2Kn7Qw2uxuLihrHFg1xUog= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240613-18, 6/13/2024), Outbound message X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 3312 On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 01:53:44 +0000 BTR1701 wrote: > On Jun 13, 2024 at 2:03:01 PM PDT, "Rhino" > wrote: > > > Rick Beato thinks we've reached the point he's been warning about: > > AI is now able to generate music that many people can't recognize > > as AI. > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbo6SdyWGns [9] > > > > Strangely enough, his kids, who are WAY more knowledgeable about > > music than most kids, can easily spot the AI songs where Beato > > himself has trouble. > > > > I truly hope AI can't do engraving, otherwise BTR1701 may not be > > able to do it for money any longer! > > I've seen demonstrations of what purport to be the cutting edge of AI > scanning and recognition software when applied to music and while it > does a good job with clearly legible handwritten notation of one-line > melodies and simple chords, the moment it's given a page of something > like Jerry Goldsmith's score for ALIEN, with both it's terrible > penmanship and grainy/faded image quality that's been copied and > recopied a dozen times, the software has the equivalent of a nervous > breakdown and produces something out of a George Crumb fever dream: > > https://ibb.co/j8zKYxv > Yikes! Did the AI people take a bribe from the chiropractors union to make the score a spiral? After all, the musicians are going to get seriously warped necks trying to follow that.... > So I think I'm safe from musical Skynet for now. > > Yes: "for now". Just as Beato predicted that AI music would get harder to distinguish from the real thing to the point where many people were fooled, I bet the engraving skills of the AIs will eventually be very hard to distinguish from the best human efforts. It seems like all computer stuff is like that. I can remember early word processors that had only a single font and couldn't handle practically anything harder than simple paragraphs and headings. Now, there is almost no document type that they can't create. Machine translation is much better than it was initially, Etc. etc. etc. -- Rhino