Oddly, been mentioning this to students today - most of those I teach are completely unaware of such technology, or how it will impact them in the future. I think that in a few years time it'll be possible to generate a wide range of music at the touch of a button, and it'll be convincing.
This is clearly pastiche, but I think that's the first step towards convincing compositions and then onwards to being original and interesting. I know there have been software methods to compose (and symphonies written by such), but I think the current AI/machine learning trend will allow the technology to move far faster than teaching it explicitly all the music and composition theory that you can.
Is this song actually popular, because if not, I'm pretty sure you don't get to call it a "hit". I think when AI starts actually consistently generating popular songs (since that means it's generating stuff people want to keep listening to) is when things will get a bit more interesting.
It does sound like late Beatles to me, e.g. "Glass Onion", "I'm the Walrus". But it has a bit of a paint-by-numbers quality to it. More of a "rare songs the artist wisely did not release" than "greatest hits" feel.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 33.4 ms ] threadBut given that, it is still surprisingly coherent, melodic and generally enjoyable!
This is clearly pastiche, but I think that's the first step towards convincing compositions and then onwards to being original and interesting. I know there have been software methods to compose (and symphonies written by such), but I think the current AI/machine learning trend will allow the technology to move far faster than teaching it explicitly all the music and composition theory that you can.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHZ_b05W7o