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Rise of the Music Machines

Hi-Phi Nation

CHAPTER

Introduction

10 musicians listened to 38 straight days' worth of music, 92 hours each, typing out their descriptions one by one before moving on to the next clip. They used a total of 370,000 words to describe all of the clips. Google ran the music and the words through a deep learning model with a goal of figuring out what words correlate with what musical sounds. The outcome, if the project went well, would be the ability for any of us to say anything to Google and it would generate brand new music based on our instructions.

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