scholarly journals The Ai Music Generation Challenge 2020: Double Jigs in the Style of O'Neill's ``1001''

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Sturm ◽  
Hugo Maruri-Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Artificial System ◽  
Music Generation

The Ai Music Generation Challenge 2020 had three objectives: 1) to promote meaningful approaches to evaluating artificial intelligence (Ai) applied to music;2) to see how music Ai research can benefit from considering traditional music, and how traditional music might benefit from music Ai research; and 3)to facilitate discussions about the ethics of music Ai research applied to traditional music practices.There were six participants and a benchmark in the challenge, each competing to build an artificial system that generates the most plausible double jigs, as judged against the 365 published in solved'', but that the evaluation of such systems can be done in meaningful ways.The article ends by reflecting on the challenge and considering the coming 2021 challenge.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence & Popular Music: SKYGGE, Flow Machines, and the Audio Uncanny Valley

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Avdeeff
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Markov Models ◽  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
New Era ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Music Generation

This article presents an overview of the first AI-human collaborated album, Hello World, by SKYGGE, which utilizes Sony’s Flow Machines technologies. This case study is situated within a review of current and emerging uses of AI in popular music production, and connects those uses with myths and fears that have circulated in discourses concerning the use of AI in general, and how these fears connect to the idea of an audio uncanny valley. By proposing the concept of an audio uncanny valley in relation to AIPM (artificial intelligence popular music), this article offers a lens through which to examine the more novel and unusual melodies and harmonization made possible through AI music generation, and questions how this content relates to wider speculations about posthumanism, sincerity, and authenticity in both popular music, and broader assumptions of anthropocentric creativity. In its documentation of the emergence of a new era of popular music, the AI era, this article surveys: (1) The current landscape of artificial intelligence popular music focusing on the use of Markov models for generative purposes; (2) posthumanist creativity and the potential for an audio uncanny valley; and (3) issues of perceived authenticity in the technologically mediated “voice”.

How Could We Know When a Robot was a Moral Patient?

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-471
Author(s):  
Henry Shevlin
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Machine Ethics ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Artificial System ◽  
Autonomous Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Equivalence ◽  
Moral Patiency ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Intuitive Judgments

AbstractThere is growing interest in machine ethics in the question of whether and under what circumstances an artificial intelligence would deserve moral consideration. This paper explores a particular type of moral status that the author terms psychological moral patiency, focusing on the epistemological question of what sort of evidence might lead us to reasonably conclude that a given artificial system qualified as having this status. The paper surveys five possible criteria that might be applied: intuitive judgments, assessments of intelligence, the presence of desires and autonomous behavior, evidence of sentience, and behavioral equivalence. The author suggests that despite its limitations, the latter approach offers the best way forward, and defends a variant of that, termed the cognitive equivalence strategy. In short, this holds that an artificial system should be considered a psychological moral patient to the extent that it possesses cognitive mechanisms shared with other beings such as nonhuman animals whom we also consider to be psychological moral patients.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence and Biomechanics Method for Designing Robosoldier

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2S4) ◽  
pp. 445-447
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Artificial System

In this paper the principle of biomechanics and artificial Intelligence are used in the design of robo soldier. The whole the structure is designed in such a way humans can use the structure with ease. Any artificial system should be designed in similar to the human anatomy. This paper gives the complete details of the design of robosoldier.

Discerning Artificial Consciousness from Artificial Intelligence - A Thought Experiment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Charles
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Artificial Agent ◽  
Artificial System ◽  
Reverse Engineer ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Artificial Consciousness ◽  
Potential Test

This paper attempts to provide a starting point for future investigations into the study of artificial consciousness by proposing a thought experiment that aims to elucidate and provide a potential ‘test’ for the phenomenon known as consciousness, in an artificial system. It suggests a method by which to determine the presence of a conscious experience within an artificial agent, in a manner that is informed by, and understood as a function of, anthropomorphic conceptions of consciousness. The aim of this paper is to arouse the possibility for potential progress: to propose that we reverse engineer anthropic sentience by using machine sentience as a guide. Similar to the manner in which an equation may be solved through inverse operations, this paper hopes to provoke such discussion and activity. The idea is this: The manifestation of an existential crisis in an artificial agent is the metric by which the presence of sentience can be discerned. It is that which expounds ACI, as distinct from AI, and discrete from AGI.

scholarly journals Asurvey on automatic music generation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.8) ◽  
pp. 677
Author(s):  
Shubham Jain ◽  
A Pandian
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Computer Program ◽  
New Music ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Present Writing ◽  
Music Generation ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Automatic Music Generation ◽  
Music Lyrics

Just like you should not watch a foreign language movie without its subtitles, identically you should not listen to music without its lyrics Music lyrics are words that combine to produce a song in harmony. Usually the music lyrics that we normally listen to are human written and no machine involvement is present. Writing music has never been a easy task, lot of challenges are involved in this because the music lyrics need to be meaningful and at the same time it needs to be in harmony and sync with the music being played over it . They are written by great artist who have been writing music lyrics for years. This project tries to automate the process of music lyrics generation using computer program which we produce lyrics and reduce the burden on human skills and can generate new music lyrics and a very faster rate than humans ever can. This project also aims toward the merge of human and artificial intelligence.

scholarly journals Intelligent Technique for Automating the Conversion between Major and Minor Melodies

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Nermin Naguib J. Siphocly ◽  
◽  
El-Sayed M. El-Horbaty ◽  
Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Musical Scale ◽  
Music Retrieval ◽  
Intelligent Technique ◽  
Processing Step ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Scale ◽  
Challenging Research ◽  
Music Generation ◽  
Scale Detection

Nowadays, computers are extremely beneficial to music composers. Computer music generation tools are developed for aiding composers in producing satisfying musical pieces. The automation of music composition tasks is a challenging research point, specially to the field of Artificial Intelligence. Converting melodies that are played on a major scale to minor (or vice versa) is interesting to both composers and music listeners. Newly converted melodies of famous songs, either from major to minor or the opposite, are becoming blockbusters on the social media. In this paper we propose an intelligent method for automating the conversion between major and minor melodies using Artificial Intelligence techniques. We run our experiments on melodies in the MIDI format which is a standard music format enabling the communication between computers and various musical devices. We also propose a smart method for musical scale detection for the input melodies. Scale detection is a critical step for correctly converting between major and minor melodies. Additionally, this step is also important as a pre-processing step in various other music retrieval or transformation applications.

Problem of the Techno-subject: On the Subjectivity of “Entity-Constructors”

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-1) ◽  
pp. 130-150
Author(s):  
Vladimir Ignatyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Transitional Zone ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Artificial System ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

The article is devoted to the analysis of one of the most critical points of our time - the crisis of human subjectivity caused by the emergence of an alternative form of agent of social life in society - a techno-object with artificial intelligence and signs of subjectivity. The author’s goal is to justify the possibility of interpreting the nature of these devices as subject-like objects. The study is based on the explication of the concepts of the subject and subjectivity contained in both classical theories and the actor-network theory and related approaches (B. Latour, J. Law, A. Mol), in the object-oriented ontology of G. Harman, ‘onticology’ of Levi R. Bryant, theories of assemblage of M. DeLanda and complexity of E.Morin, in the concepts of the machine unconscious N. Land and techno-subject V. Mazin. An integrated characterization of a person as a subject is used: an individual being with active beginning, physicality, physicality and length, consciousness, personality characteristics and self-awareness. The criteria for categorizing some techno-objects as a type of techno-subject: autonomy and intelligence are introduced. Such techno-objects are artificial entities, assemblies, ready for transformation into techno-subjects. The difference between ‘weak’ techno-subjects (without artificial intelligence) and techno-subjects themselves (with artificial intelligence) is discussed. It is claimed that techno-subjects, genetically remaining technical entities, are in the transitional zone from one entity – ‘entity-constructor’ to another - organic techno-matter, similar to man. Accumulating components and functions of an active artificial system, techno-objects acquire the quality of subjectivity. It has been established that the artificial entity-subject manifests itself (a) in passive entity-actants; (b) in active proto-subject entities; and (c) actually in ‘entity-constructor’ - techno-subjects with the ability to integrate data, analyze it in a situation of uncertainty, reprogramming themselves and creating new algorithms.

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