
#20 - Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta
Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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SketchRNN: A Model That Learned to Draw
SketchRNN is a recurrent neural network trained on sketches to make sketches. SketchRNN models are based on Google's Quickdraw, where people had 20 seconds to draw something in Pictionary with a computer classifier counterpart. Jesse Engel built some plug-in notes for Ableton that you're listening to but don't know what it sounds like. The glitchiness of these sounds really captures the essence of Brian Eno and his "broken and edgy" sound.
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