If artificial intelligence was a great protagonist in 2022, announcements like MusicLM’s confirm what, on the other hand, we could already expect, and that is that 2023 promises to be quite similar in this regard.. What’s more, the impact of new artificial intelligence launches may not be as famous as last year, because for the general public this is starting to be something normal, but with total security we will see more new such developments in 2023 than in 2022.
The success of ChatGPT (if you haven’t tried it yet, we’ll tell you how to do it here) has a lot to do with this, although the photo would be incomplete if it didn’t also include all the artificial intelligences that generate images from text in the equation, like DALL-E 2, which we got to know over the past year. And of course, these are only the most recent developments, but they are based on a substrate that has been in the making for decades, and which now seems to have reached a good degree of maturity.
Each technological revolution is usually associated with thethe appearance of new companies dedicated to these novelties, while the oldest ones, more established in other markets, must make an effort when it comes to competing with “the new ones”. This, again, brings us to ChatGPT or, to be more exact, OpenAI, the company behind this AI, and how with its products, it has forced other tech companies to step on the accelerator. MusicML is a clear example of this and of how Google is in a complicated but interesting situation.
In his statements about ChatGPT, Yann LeCun mentioned Google as a company closely related to innovation in artificial intelligence, and he was absolutely right, the problem is that the search engine company has not given much visibility to its advances and technologies in this regard. This, however, seems to be about to change and, although the most relevant announcements in this regard are expected for Google I/O 2023, for now we already have an interesting progress with MusicLM, an artificial intelligence capable of creating a musical composition from a text description.
The company has published a paper, which you can download for free from here and, in addition, it has published an extensive list of examples that allow us to verify the effectiveness of MusicML. We have previously seen other services for generating music based on artificial intelligence, but from what we can see in the examples, it seems that we have the most advanced development of this type so far.
Google has decided, yes, not to launch it as a service, at least for now. Trained with 280,000 hours of recordings, those responsible fear the same thing that we have seen in other types of AI before, the risk that the AI may incorporate material protected by copyright in its compositions, an interesting sign that the The debate that has arisen around the artificial intelligences of image creation transcends many other creative fields.
