has achieved breakout, and AI junkies have spent the better part of this week making Viking saga songs about their cats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBeing a non-music junkie, I feel like 90% of the music content put out by stars basically sounds the same, with 10% of them being the mind worm hits that we all know. My take is that Suno is pretty good at generating the 90% in the style you want. In principle it\u2019s not supposed to let you replicate styles based on particular musicians, but evidently it\u2019s pretty easy to get past the safeguards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSo what does this mean vis-a-vis the Church? The people I\u2019ve seen trying it out in Latter-day Saint land haven\u2019t had the greatest luck getting it to replicate, say, Mormon Tabernacle Choir style, and it\u2019s clear that Latter-day Saint music was not a big part of its training corpus. Of course, not all gospel-related music has to adopt that style, but as of now it can\u2019t produce the kind of general conference-type tone that our ears are habituated to. Of course, we all know that will change within minutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHowever, we are a very top-down organization, with the \u201ccanonical\u201d (for the next few decades at least) word on music being soon forthcoming with the new hymnal, so I doubt that even quite good AI-generated music will have much of an impact on the day-to-day in the Church. However, looking ahead a little the forthcoming ability to combine and synthesize styles will make it quite a bit easier to generate new ideas for different renditions, and background and other music for gospel-related content producers will exponentially diversify as, like with art, we are no longer beholden to a handful of prominent styles and works that people keep recycling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nPS public service announcement: Open AI will be releasing voice widespread voice cloning software in the next little bit–it’s been available for a while but it will soon be available to basically everybody, so anybody will be able to send you a message in your mom’s voice asking for you to wire money to an Algerian bank account. So now is the time to have conversations with your family members, especially older ones, about phone calls in your voice not necessarily being you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Note: None of this is an April Fool’s Joke, it just happens to be the day we had a spot available in the queue. So far the three main AI use cases that have achieved liftoff are Large Language Models, text-to-image, and translation (Supposedly OpenAI has achieved text-to-video that is so good that multimillion dollar movie production investments are being cancelled. Still, for some reason Open AI has not actually released \u201cSora\u201d to the public, so until we can play around with it it\u2019s hard to know what to make of the hype).\u00a0 However, text-to-music has just had its breakout moment. Previous AI-generated music was short and consisted of a series of extremely formulaic pastiches, but this latest model by Suno has achieved breakout, and AI junkies have spent the better part of this week making Viking saga songs about their cats.\u00a0 Being a non-music junkie, I feel like 90% of the music content put out by stars basically sounds the same, with 10% of them being the mind worm hits that we all know. My take is that Suno is pretty good at generating the 90% in the style you want. In principle it\u2019s not supposed to let you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46876"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50241,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46876\/revisions\/50241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}