[ExI] an ai wrote this script

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 20:33:04 UTC 2016


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Sorry for the late response, but - yes.  The keyword you want is
"autocomposer".  I used one back in the late 1990s to generate the
background music for a game I wrote.  http://www.wingedcat.org/music/ if
you want to judge for yourself.  It did require me to bin-sort the good
ones from the less listenable ones, and do a bit of manual editing...but
again, this was 1990s.  I can not help but think there's better stuff out
there now, if you look.

adrian

Thanks!  Just for fun I Googled for novels written by AIs and found one
that made a cut in Japan for some prize.  So these things are coming fast -
as Dilbert's Dogbert said "Information is coming at you like a fire hose
aimed at a teacup."  Thing is, how do they code for originality in music
and literature when we can't define or measure it?  And think of the
selectivity, say in music:  this note to follow that one, played on this
instrument, at this loudness level, at this tempo, to be followed by
another note, accompanied by a choice of hundreds of other instruments and
their notes, and so on.  And great musicians know which of these will work
to obtain his goal.   For pop music, with its typically unchanging loudness
level. unchanging instrumentation, unchanging sadness or happiness or
whatever mood, this will be fairly easy.  (For real genius in pop music,
listen to the tracts from Ishtar - just perfectly so-so amateur - a
misunderstood film and music)

For classical, the 20th century was a bit of anything goes, so an AI piece
might be accepted well in some quarters.  To do Baroque, with all of its
rules, is easy.  I might even like some of it, snob that I am.

I hope all of this goes fast - very fast.  I want to read and hear it.

bill w
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