The idea is awesome! :) However there's definitely much room for improvement, first of all rythm and composition (so there's some sense of musical form).
Yes, I think I’ve gotten it to roughly a GPT-2 level: good enough to share, but with a lot of room left to improve. I think adding some kind of bar/measure token might help with rhythm, and perhaps some form of longer-term planning for the overall composition.
You have trained a model, presumably on other people's work, to improvise on an initial kernel of musical material. In doing so you:
1) remove the opportunity for one to develop their own skills in extending musical ideas
2) rip off other people's work wholesale
3) remove what is the most rewarding part of music (creating and shaping it through refinement and technique).
Is this HN? Aren't people supposed to tinker with tech for no reason other than seeing if they can? Is everything that involves a transformer now just AI BAD? Is that what the world has devolved into? Each side screaming "Orange Man Bad" and endless variations at each other?
While it is a neat parlor trick, a lot of people have specific grevience against the application to art. AI has only served to further disempower artists broadly, and arguably it pushes "art" to a lower common denominator. Try to actually situate yourself in "why" people get rankled instead of making it a thought terminating cliche.
Yes, I think I’ve gotten it to roughly a GPT-2 level: good enough to share, but with a lot of room left to improve. I think adding some kind of bar/measure token might help with rhythm, and perhaps some form of longer-term planning for the overall composition.
You have trained a model, presumably on other people's work, to improvise on an initial kernel of musical material. In doing so you:
1) remove the opportunity for one to develop their own skills in extending musical ideas 2) rip off other people's work wholesale 3) remove what is the most rewarding part of music (creating and shaping it through refinement and technique).
Or maybe there is some other "spark" deeper within?
When everyone can make anything as soon as they think of it, what will set us apart?