Ooooh, Darpa, Ooooh, Baby, Wail

July 29, 2015

I read “DARPA Hired a Jazz Musician to Jam with Their Artificially Intelligent Software.” I would have used the pronoun “its” but I am not artificially intelligence. DARPA brings it axes to a jam fest. The DARPA barrelhouse features some Bose bouncing riffs.

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DARPA’s robot, AI infused quartet is down by law.

The write up said:

“A human musician also builds a knowledge base by practicing and by listening and by learning and studying,” Thomas [DARPA cat] said. “So the thing we’re proposing to do is analogous to the way a human learns, but eventually it will be able to do this on a much larger scale. It can scour thousands of transcriptions instead of dozens or hundreds.” Many people might not consider music a form of communication, but Paul Cohen, an AI researcher and head of the Communicating with Computers project, thinks music shares many qualities with the spoken and written word.

You can watch a video and watch these fantastic musicians keep up with a human hep cat. If Dark Web search and drone performance improves with this investment, that’s cool.

Maybe we have another US government moldy fig, dude? Robot musicians would not be persons of interest for alleged use of controlled substances unless WD-40 were reclassified.

Stephen E Arnold, July 29, 2015

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