One of my favorite ways to celebrate the holidays is to play some of my favorite traditional Christmas songs like Cocoa JollyFluff, Cinnamon Hollybells, Peaches Twinkleleaves, and Syllabub Chocolatebell. At least, this wonderful collection may become traditional in a few decades. Now they are the latest hit Christmas songs created by a neural net artificial intelligence program by Made By AI.
Victoria Bell writing in Www.dailymail.uk describes how a neural net based software trained by examining hundreds of digital representations of music in MIDI files is learning how to write new songs of its own.
Researchers from Made by AI trained a neural network by inputting one hundred Christmas tunes in the form of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files.
It then picked out recurring themes, motifs, instruments and rhythms to generate its own hits.
Scientists have trained an AI system to write its own catchy Christmas songs by teaching it existing festive tunes. The system came up with catchy tunes with names like 'Syllabub Chocolatebell, 'Peaches Twinkleleaves' and 'Cocoa Jollyfluff’.
A spokesperson from Made by AI said: 'The tunes generated with AI have similarities with classical memorable Christmas music - and that is the point - otherwise it would be a random tune with no connection to the upcoming Holidays.'
Neural networks are a type of computer program that imitate the way that brains learn to solve problems.
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Neural networks tend to pick up tone and vocabulary easily, but struggle with making sense.
So, the carol-trained network learned to produce a lot of lines that sounded joyful. ...
The AI also came up with the names for the tunes.
The team noted that they only had limited time to work on the network but said with 'more work and adherence to musical concepts such as structure and repetition, it might be possible to generate something a little more catchy'. .
You can listen to five of the songs by following the link back to the original article at Mail Online.
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The music may need a little more work, but the titles sound like absolutely wonderful deserts.
I’m on a diet but I’d break it in a second to get my hands on some Cocoa JollyFluff and Peaches Twinkleleaves. These remind me of Jabberwocky. I wonder if Lewis Carroll was experimenting with a little Cocoa JollyFluff of his own. I can’t wait to show these to our own brillig whose name comes from Jaberwocky.
JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Brillig is also a great cook so I’m wondering if we can convince her to create some new recipes for these tasty titles if she’s willing to take on another holiday challenge. Or, perhaps, we should feed 100 of her existing recipes to this neural network AI program and see what it cooks up?