By: Chloe Israel When people think of artificial intelligence (AI), what usually pops into their heads are things like self-driving cars, talking computers from sci-fi movies, or evil robots bent on destroying humanity. In reality, AI is much more simple and widespread than that. Most of our content from social media is determined by AI. It gathers our information from the apps we use or the things we search online. Our GPSes use AI to learn where we go most often, the fastest way there, and what obstacles are in the way. Even something as simple as autocorrect is AI that learns how we type and the common mistakes we make. When you think about it, the amount of AI that is already a part of our lives can be terrifying. But it can also be used in fun and entertaining ways. One of our natural science TACS, Abe Krell, shined a light on how AI is used in music and visual arts. While it can be used to gather information or automate jobs, there are creative ways for us to use artificial intelligence. While exploring how AI relates to music, we looked at a website called Jukebox Open AI. Jukebox uses a general AI that can learn based on what it’s given. It has a database of over 1.4 million songs and analyzes them based on length, mood, genre, and artist. Using this, it can relate different artists based on their popularity, genre, or style. So what use does this have? Well, the cool thing that this AI can do is generate new music. Using its database of audio, it can replicate an artist’s voice or style and create a completely new song from that information. All the user needs to do is give it a prompt and an artist or style they want, and Jukebox will generate it. The crazy part is that Jukebox is incredibly accurate! We listened to a song it created with only the prompt of ‘Airplanes’ and the artist Jay Z, and it sounded just like a song he would sing. This AI can create original songs that are almost indistinguishable from human-created songs. This technology could have endless possibilities for the future of music and the music industry.
We also explored how visual art and AI are connected, using a Google Collab called VQGAN. VQGAN is similar to Jukebox, in which it uses a human prompt to create an image. The AI analyzes keywords and uses those to create the picture. And the more the AI is used, the clearer the picture is. For example, a prompt we used was ‘Mythic Onion Farm’. As ridiculous as that sounds, a clear image was created. There was a clear field of onions, a farm in the background, and a filter over it that gave a ‘mythic’ quality. Those keywords were all used to create the image. AI like the one used in VQGAN is used both for fun and professionally. Musicians like Brockhampton use AI-generated art for their album covers & packaging, created only from the title of that album. Many of the people in the class agreed that the images created would make great t-shirts or album covers. AI is also great at mimicking other artists. Given enough time, AI can replicate famous paintings with such accuracy that most people wouldn’t be able to tell it from an original. It can also mimic an artist's style, just as it can with music. With this technology, we could see a new wave of AI-generated art and AI art replications. As our technology advances, AI has become more of a growing reality than fiction. AI is already a large part of our lives and it’ll only become more widespread. At its core, AI is a tool. If we use it right, it can be used creatively and redefine the artistic world. If you want to explore Jukebox AI, click here If you want to explore VQGAN, click here
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