Artificial Intelligence / AI (basics and uses)

NasserAlazzawi

Some of my more creative / early adopter friends have found good uses for AI within their fields of work to save time. I know very little about it but believe there’s huge potential when used properly/ethically.

I was wondering what it could be used for within the music scene. For example, making your own artwork instead of paying designers is one thing that sprung to mind.

It seems like you need to know:

The basics of Chat GPT
Learn how to ask it a well aimed, specific question for it to tweak what it gives you until you are happy with the results (it seems if you “ask skillfully” you get great results)
Find out what other AI tools are out there that can help you in your field - because there are a lot of them (too many to find out about tbf) - and then learn how to use the ones you would like to work with.

I always feel like I am a late adopter with things like this because its so much of the unknown and since most of you are older than me I’d imagine I’m not alone here unless you’re into tech.

I’ve heard of producers using AI plugins for Ableton and Logic generating sounds with their voice, for AI to go away and find the instruments you ask it to, and it kind of pastes over your vocal with the sound you really wanted in a professional manner.

My first dip into AI has been tonight on Adobe Photoshop. Brave for me, I can barely use it.

Photoshop has a plugin where you can tell it to generate edits to my own photographs either from it’s own sources on the internet or against a reference of another image that I give it.

Pissing around, for my first go I took this image and told it to replace me with a polar bear dancing (I did not dress it like that)

Are any of you finding AI useful? What are you using?

hugopal

NasserAlazzawi

Can you please ask AI to replace all your posts on here with ones written by the polar bear as well?

NasserAlazzawi

hugopal Can you please ask AI to replace all your posts on here with ones written by the polar bear as well?

I decided to go third party.

“Write a short story from the perspective of a polar bear. The bear is struggling to DJ because he can’t understand pioneer controllers and he doesn’t know where to plug the cables in. All he wants to do is live stream a DJ performance from the edge of an iceberg as the moon rises.”

Under the rising moon on an Arctic iceberg, Bjorn, a determined polar bear, struggled with his dream of live streaming a DJ performance. His massive paws fumbled with the intricate Pioneer DJ controller and tangled cables, and despite his efforts, he only managed distorted sounds and even lost a speaker to the icy waters. Frustrated but inspired by the moonlit beauty, Bjorn gave it one last try, meticulously recalibrating his setup. Finally, harmonious beats flowed through the speakers, perfectly blending with the rhythm of the ice and sea. As his live stream began, comments of awe and admiration poured in, affirming Bjorn’s triumph as DJ Bjorn, the polar bear who brought music to the Arctic night.

Wasily

Previously you needed to be able to code in Python at a bare minimum. But now you can use AI based apps like Codify to write executables pretty easily. Musically I’ve only really used AI for stem isolation and generation of chord progressions around a base note, but I do think sadly that Apple got the advert right when it showed that press crushing human creativity into an iPad.

Along_the_Wire

Wasily how do you get stem isolation, Was?

Morty-C-137

Wasily

Wasily Previously you needed to be able to code in Python at a bare minimum. But now you can use AI based apps like Codify to write executables pretty easily.

Which one do you recommend? I’m getting about 20 different hits when Googling ‘Codify AI’

hugopal

NasserAlazzawi Finally, harmonious beats flowed through the speakers, perfectly blending with the rhythm of the ice and sea. As his live stream began, comments of awe and admiration poured in, affirming Bjorn’s triumph as DJ Bjorn, the polar bear who brought music to the Arctic night.

I quite like the sound of this polar bear chap - can you also please start posting his mixes on here instead of yours?

Wasily

Along_the_Wire Lots of options atm like RipX, but I’m using lalal.ai.

erik

Wasily fadr is decent too

Wasily

Morty-C-137 https://codifyai.org/

Smallman1

I tell you what AI is really good for.

Finding out if mangoes are good for you.

Matt

There’s a piece of software called ACE Studio that can change or generate vocals using AI. Pretty Impressive.

BlainSA

I like how Hugo had to confirm he was definitely being a penis

hugopal

BlainSA I like how Hugo had to confirm he was definitely being a penis

some do say that repetition is comedy

NasserAlazzawi

"I have invited my friend Hugopal round as for a guest mix. He is smart with an incredible sense for detail. He likes to use detail to cause arguments on the internet and his spirit animal is a stubborn mule.

Please generate a promotional image of him superimposed onto my body."

Millsy

Er, that’s Ed mate

NasserAlazzawi

Millsy What if we’ve accidentally uncovered that the two usernames are one person?

hugopal

NasserAlazzawi What if we’ve accidentally uncovered that the two usernames are one person?

Thankfully I don’t look anything like that (Ed). A few people on here will have even very briefly seen me irl. We’re not the same person.

bosstrabs

LOL @ ‘early adopters’.

Literally everyone I know is using AI at work in some capacity, from obvious stuff like writing speeches/presentations, to complex stuff like geodesics/logistics planning.

Millsy

My design team use it on the Adobe suite a lot. I use AI video for some clients occasionally. It’s everywhere.

seanc80

Serious question - can it be used on spreadsheets? for say, forecasting - using previous years actual figures.