Google creates an AI capable of composing music from a descriptive text

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Tools based on artificial intelligence techniques such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion are capable of creating images from descriptions in natural language.

is capable of doing the same with a text.

Ask him for a 2,500-character summary of a book, for example, or a list of saving tips, and he'll do it in seconds.

Now, Google has created another one of these generative tools that is able to imagine new songs and melodies based only on a text description.

It's called

, and it's a model that generates high-fidelity music from descriptions such as "a calming violin melody accompanied by a distorted guitar riff" or "a fusion of reggaeton and electronic dance music, with a spacey and otherworldly sound".

The model cannot yet create recognizable voices to accompany these rhythms and melodies but it is far more advanced than other similar tools, capable of creating multi-minute compositions with internal coherence.

As with video, this is one of the biggest obstacles that still exist for this type of tool.

Dall-E or Midjourney can create a highly detailed scene, but have a hard time repeating it with the small variations that would be necessary to create the different frames.

MusicLM, who has been

, is capable of understanding the intention of the descriptive text and translating it into the composition.

If asked for a melancholic piano song, it will sound very different than a happy one.

But for musicians who hope to use it soon there is bad news.

Google, at the moment, does not plan to release it as OpenAI has done with ChatGPT or Dall-E.

Its creators assure that there are still important ethical questions that must be discussed before making it public.

MusicML, for example, creates its compositions with what it has learned from other songs and melodies, which

.

It's an issue that affects illustration and photo-focused tools as well, and one that could start to have legal consequences this year.

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