awkwardbydesign
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If you want to hear creative use of autotune, try listening to some Tuareg guitar artists.
How on earth could you tell?I watched Bnet Houariyat live ages ago. No autotune required.
We were told when we were young, the robots would do all the boring jobs such as cleaning, doing the washing up et cetera, leaving us, humans to be creative.I have never liked autotune. Removes all that makes a human voice great. I would rather a voice out of tune with character than all autotuned and synthetic.
Plus A1 will be the downfall of creativity. I dread to think what the world will look like in 50 years from now.
but it has other uses beyond the obvious 'Cher effect' (although there is some debate, whether that was actually an early version of AT or something very different),
It’s probably because I’m old, and prefer the music from my era, that I can’t abide modern
‘Pop’ music.
Especially female singers.
Singers, such as Dusty Springfield, articulated their words properly.
Some modern female singers ( and I use the word advisedly ) appear to almost gabble.
deep fake technology
Yessir, the old ones are the best. (Grrah…)
You was my stitch but it not what it seam
I got that wetty, I’m keepin’ it clean
I swear I be stuck in my ways…
The not very good ‘Ghostwriter’ song that went viral on TikTok last year (‘Heart On My Sleeve’, with Drake and the Weeknd AI), even received a Grammy nomination; though it was then hastily reworked as the vocals weren’t ‘legally obtained’.
Was that weird video actually music ?
If that’s what young people listen to today I do wonder for their sanity...
Computers are pretty good at lots of boring jobs - who wants to go back to air traffic control systems run by people with slide rules and post-notes?We were told when we were young, the robots would do all the boring jobs such as cleaning, doing the washing up et cetera, leaving us, humans to be creative.
Turns out that robots are really bad at the boring jobs, but pretty good at the creative ones.
(Disclaimer: There is, currently, no such thing as artificial intelligence, though I appreciate we have lost the battle about this. The large language models that people using now are basically predictive algorithms based on machine, learning and statistics— Emily Bender calls them 'stochastic parrots'. As they are trained on the data from the Internet, new models will be using the crap produced by the earlier versions of themselves, so eventually they'll become absolutely useless.
I can see that the use of curated data being fed into models for stuff like searching for patterns in x-rays or large data sets, but the kind of so-called artificial intelligence we have now will die a death. Of course that won't stop it being used to produce lots and lots and lots of stuff that will appear to be crap or appear to be good depending on what it is. There is software available now that helps you write books very quickly. I think Amazon are restricting the number of publications written by large language models to several a day.)
Stephen
who wants to go back to air traffic control systems run by people with slide rules and post-notes?
I agree that computers can do, and allow us to do, very boring tasks. I am a spreadsheet fan and wrote my own before VisiCalc conquered the earth. And I agree that ML has potential to do amazing (and dangerous) things. Pattern recognition is a wonderful and terrible thing.Computers are pretty good at lots of boring jobs - who wants to go back to air traffic control systems run by people with slide rules and post-notes?
And machine learning has loads of amazing potential. I've been reading about Transkribus which is amazing tech for anyone who has struggled to read illegible c18th manuscripts.
But as you say, the one this it doesn't do is creativity.
Although AT was used in the track "Believe" the main effect was achieved through a Digitech Talker after finding a Korg VC10 vocoder was a bit too cheesy.
Recording Cher's 'Believe'
It was the best-selling single of last year, and signalled a radical change of musical direction for Cher — complete with bizarre vocal processing. Yet, surprisingly, it was produced in a small studio in West London. Sue Sillitoe relates the astonishing tale of 'Believe'.www.soundonsound.com
Digitech Talker
Paul White discovers that it's good to talk, especially when you have some help from Digitech.www.soundonsound.com
I think they're called dishwashers ;-)Where is the washing up robot?