How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life | Pierre Barreau

How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life | Pierre Barreau

Creating an AI Composer

In this section, the speaker introduces the idea of creating an AI composer inspired by a movie called "Her" and explains how it works.

AIVA - An Artificial Intelligence Composer

  • AIVA is an artificial intelligence that has learned music composition by reading over 30,000 scores of history's greatest composers.
  • Using deep neural networks, AIVA looks for patterns in the scores and tries to infer what notes should come next in those tracks.
  • Once AIVA gets good at those predictions, it can actually build a set of mathematical rules for that style of music in order to create its own original compositions.

Teaching AIVA to Compose Music for Different Preferences

  • To teach AIVA how to compose the right music for the right person, they show over 30 different category labels for each score in their database such as mood or note density.
  • By seeing all this data, AIVA can actually respond to very precise requirements.

The Future of Personalized Music

In this section, the speaker talks about how AI can create beautiful pieces of music and how personalized music would be the next single biggest change in how we consume and create music.

Augmenting Human Creativity with Technology

  • Live music was almost always used in silent films to augment the experience. But it didn't scale well.
  • When music recording was invented, it allowed content creators like film creators to have prerecorded and original music tailored to each and every frame of their stories. And that was really an enhancer of creativity.

The Future of Personalized Music

  • Personalized music would be the next single biggest change in how we consume and create music.
  • AI can compose hundreds of hours of personalized music for those use cases where human creativity doesn't scale.
  • Imagine if we could bring back Beethoven to life, sitting next to you, composing a music for your personality and your life story.

AIVA's Vision

In this section, the speaker talks about AIVA's vision to personalize music for every individual in the world based on their story and personality.

Personalized Music

  • AIVA's vision is to personalize music for each individual in the world.
  • The personalized music will be based on their story and personality.

Composing Music for TED

In this section, the speaker talks about how AIVA composed music for TED.

Biasing AIVA

  • The speaker and his team worked on biasing AIVA on the style of the TED jingle.
  • They also worked on music that makes us feel a sense of awe and wonder.

"The Age of Amazement"

  • The result of biasing AIVA is called "The Age of Amazement."

Listening to "The Age of Amazement"

In this section, the speaker invites the audience to listen to "The Age of Amazement."

Listening to Music

  • The speaker invites the audience to close their eyes and enjoy listening to "The Age of Amazement."
  • The audience listens to "The Age of Amazement."

Conclusion

In this section, the speaker concludes his talk.

Thank You

  • The music ends.
  • The speaker thanks everyone.
Channel: TED
Video description

Meet AIVA, an artificial intelligence that has been trained in the art of music composition by reading more than 30,000 of history's greatest scores. In a mesmerizing talk and demo, Pierre Barreau plays compositions created by AIVA and shares his dream: to create original live soundtracks based on our moods and personalities. Check out more TED Talks: http://www.ted.com The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Follow TED on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/TED