May 11, 2023 11:26:00

Google releases AI model 'MusicLM' that automatically generates music from text, clears ethical issues of learning dataset

Google has announced that AI `` MusicLM '', which automatically generates music from entered text, will be released from May 11, 2023, Japan time. If you register for Google's AI experience app '

AI Test Kitchen ', you can experience Music LM with certain restrictions.

How to try MusicLM from Google's AI Test Kitchen
https://blog.google/technology/ai/musiclm-google-ai-test-kitchen/

Google updates AI Test Kitchen with 'MusicLM' text-to-music creator
https://9to5google.com/2023/05/10/ai-test-kitchen-musiclm/

MusicLM is an automatic composition AI model announced by Google in January 2023. MusicLM is trained on a dataset consisting of a total of 280,000 hours of music, and can generate music suitable for the content of the text. You can listen to what kind of music MusicLM can generate in the following article.

Developed AI 'MusicLM' that automatically composes from text entered by Google - GIGAZINE

When a paper about MusicLM was published in January, the research team pointed out ethical concerns that training datasets could incorporate copyrighted content, and Google said, 'We have no immediate plans to release MusicLM.'

Google said, ``We believe that responsible innovation does not happen alone,'' and collaborated with professional musicians to host a ``workshop to create music for training datasets'' in the following movie. clarifying. By clearing the ethical issues with this workshop, it became possible to experience with 'AI Test Kitchen' provided as an Android application, iOS application, and web browser.

Music LM Artist workshop with AI Test Kitchen & Google Arts & Culture Lab-YouTube


MusicLM can automatically generate music by specifying the atmosphere and purpose of a song, such as `` ambient music suitable for studying '' and `` soulful jazz song perfect for a dinner party '' in text. 'MusicLM is an experimental tool that helps both professional and novice musicians express their creativity,' Google says. However, since it is trained with a data set that has cleared ethical issues at the time of publication, MusicLM provided by AI Test Kitchen cannot generate music that reproduces the performance or singing voice of a specific artist. .

According to 9To5Google, a news site that actually experienced MusicLM at AI Test Kitchen, two songs were generated for one prompt, and a function was provided to give feedback on which one was the better result. matter. It is also possible to download the generated music.

In addition, the registration of AI Test Kitchen was in a waiting state, and at the time of writing the article, it was not possible to experience it immediately after registering.