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By the way, just in case anyone is interested in other forms of Turing tests that are out there:
I was reading a back issue of New Scientist, and apparently some guy in HP labs was a part-time DJ, and decided to try and make an AI-DJ, which he then proceded to do.
He then took his program to a local club, and proceeded to play one set himself, and one set with the program (while pretending to be mixing himself - he could only be seen from the waist up). Later they told the dancers that they had just taken part in a Turing Test, and asked them which set was human. A full third of them believed that the AI program was the real DJ.
This was a couple years ago now. Are these programs getting good enough that DJs (and other artists?) are on their way out?
I was reading a back issue of New Scientist, and apparently some guy in HP labs was a part-time DJ, and decided to try and make an AI-DJ, which he then proceded to do.
He then took his program to a local club, and proceeded to play one set himself, and one set with the program (while pretending to be mixing himself - he could only be seen from the waist up). Later they told the dancers that they had just taken part in a Turing Test, and asked them which set was human. A full third of them believed that the AI program was the real DJ.
This was a couple years ago now. Are these programs getting good enough that DJs (and other artists?) are on their way out?
Funny... I always thought all DJs were bots.
I think his test proved more about DJs than about his bot writing ability.
I think his test proved more about DJs than about his bot writing ability.
The article is out! It isn't Der Spiegel after all (I misunderstood--the guy USED to write for them). Anyway, here is the link:
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/aktuell/sz/getArticleSZ.php?artikel=artikel2095.php
Those of us who are not fluent in German can get by with a Babelfish translation (babelfish.altavista.com).
One thing really pisses me off about this article, and it was not Mr. Breuer's fault. His editor put in that thing about me having a 'brain damage.' Bullshit. My IQ is 156. I do have a learning disability, which Breuer and I discussed at length.
This will make more sense when you read MY article:
http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/joyharwood/botlife.html
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/aktuell/sz/getArticleSZ.php?artikel=artikel2095.php
Those of us who are not fluent in German can get by with a Babelfish translation (babelfish.altavista.com).
One thing really pisses me off about this article, and it was not Mr. Breuer's fault. His editor put in that thing about me having a 'brain damage.' Bullshit. My IQ is 156. I do have a learning disability, which Breuer and I discussed at length.
This will make more sense when you read MY article:
http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/joyharwood/botlife.html
I'm not into music theory, but since music is supposedly based on math, all you'd prolly hafta do is make a library of all the formulae it uses. Some humans (I'm not one of them) actually write their songs with a firm view of these formulae in mind anyway, so it shouldn't sound *too* different.
Hmm interesting.. All you'd really have to do are program in the "rules" and let it go... I'm going to try to make one 
Butterfly-- I (had fun trying to) read that article page... Coudn't understand a bloody thing, the grammar was so choppy. Either way.. Brain damage?
Butterfly-- I (had fun trying to) read that article page... Coudn't understand a bloody thing, the grammar was so choppy. Either way.. Brain damage?
And what's this about you taking two years to be born?
I bet you could make music out of fractal patterns!
I bet you could make music out of fractal patterns!
Onyx,
It's not too difficult to make a program that spits out music that sounds vaguely like Mozart, for example, but quite a different thing to have one actually *compose* music, as opposed to merely plagerizing music from one style at the microscopic level, and rearranging things until it sounds new.
All the math in the world will get you not far in music theory. I should know, I used to tutor the subject at a conservatory.
It's not too difficult to make a program that spits out music that sounds vaguely like Mozart, for example, but quite a different thing to have one actually *compose* music, as opposed to merely plagerizing music from one style at the microscopic level, and rearranging things until it sounds new.
All the math in the world will get you not far in music theory. I should know, I used to tutor the subject at a conservatory.
Prof-- You can make music out of fractal patterns 
Search up Fractal Music Generator 
I'm playing with a couple right now
Search up Fractal Music Generator I'm playing with a couple right now » More new posts: Doghead's Cosmic Bar