AI music is here to stay

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In today’s Daily Digest: 

• Meta is getting in on the music scene

• Think you know AI? Test your knowledge

• Why read when you can listen? 

AI has come a long way in the short space of time we’ve been talking about it. Only last year, we were blown away by the generative text skills of ChatGPT and made nervous by the ability of Midjourney to generate realities that never existed. 

Since then, a new frontier has emerged, and Meta want to lead it. Enter AudioCraft: An open-source AI tool that creates realistic and engaging audio and music content from text prompts. 

Three for the price of one: AudioCraft is actually three tools in one. MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec. MusicGen generates music from text prompts, while AudioGen generates audio from text prompts, and EnCodec is the decoder that helps to improve the quality of the audio generated.

How did Meta train this? On a lot of data. According to the company, MusicGen was trained on “20,000 hours of music owned by Meta or licensed specifically for this purpose,” while AudioGen was trained on reams of publicly owned sound effects. 

Didn’t Google do the same? Yup. About six months ago, Google launched MusicLM, an LLM that generates minutes of sounds based on a text prompt. The big difference is that MusicLM is only available to researchers – for now. 

AI-generated music has unsurprisingly divided opinion, with record labels and musicians sounding the alarm due to fear of copyright infringement, whilst futurist pop icon Grimes has encouraged people to use her voice in their AI masterpieces.

Whatever you might think about it, AI music tools will undoubtedly shake up the scene, and if you wanna see what all the hype is about, or better yet, hear, you should...

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