Title: AI Music Generation
Hello fellow toastmasters, old friends and new faces,
AI and music are closely related. Today, AI can create music and write songs.
Have you heard its music or songs ? Please raise your hand if you have !
AI composes music from learning from our music with different styles we have created before.
From my personal experience with AI writing, AI music and AI images, I would like to share with you my 3 perspectives, namely AI algorithms are generic, AI learns from us, and AI technology helps create other non-AI technology.
Perspective 1: the algorithms behind AI are generic. What I mean is that the same AI source code or program, after some modest changes, can be used for a new use case. I know this can be hard to believe because we have so many incredible AI applications are created out of similar source code. For images or computer visions, we have daobao; for texts or natural language processing, we have deepseek or ChatGPT; for music and sound, we have so many. I’ll play an AI generated music piece at the end of the speech.
Perspective 2: AI learns from our experiences and thoughts. For many decades, AI researchers have been trying to teach AI to follow our experiences and our methods for solving a problem. Their effort is to instruct the AI to unpack a problem and work on all the details like how we human would do. However, only recently we have large enough data and powerful enough computer to train AI. Right now, AI learns from our books, our Internet, our photos, our videos, our interactions and our music, so that AI can pretend to behave more like us, but AI is not us.
Perspective 3: AI technology has a spilled over effect. I have tried a new technology that can create a 3D scene or environment from our smart phone. This is good news for hobbyists. While this scene construction technology is not really AI, the technology uses many advancements that come out of AI research. I foresee there will be more interesting new technology in our work or life that AI helps to create.
In summary, AI is generic. AI learns from us but AI isn’t us. AI is more than AI because of its spilt over effect that helps create new technology. This is the end of my speech, but this is the beginning for AI and us. Let’s the music begin.