2023 Andrew Scheps • Thoughts on AI and Machine Learning 

"And I'll be proven wrong" this guy gets it

Some interesting takes on machine learning. It really goes to the heart of what creativity even is. I'd argue that all HUMANS are doing when they're trying to be creative is combining past experiences into something that sounds novel. I would not be surprised at all if AI is soon able to be "creative" in ways that utterly shock us, even if all they're doing is rearranging training data.

Nice Andrew is awesome! Such a legend!

Great insight! Thanks Andrew...!

When Andrew Scheps speaks....I listen.

Great

A lot of great insights here. Especially worth a listen for those starting out in music production and recording.

AI and such things are good sanity checks: I often throw some AI-based smart QE on the master or on a track to see what it suggests, just to see if my ears have become tired and I'm doing something really weird. Then I remove those and keep working manually, instead.

"Listen widely" is my favourite advice. Especially, when i am asked, what kind of music i listen to. Music is about stirring emotions. Every genre trigger some specific emotions. No genre have the ability to touch all emotions to the max level. The amount of combined emotions reflects the endless number of genres and sub genres. When you digging only one kind of music, you`ll definitly miss fantastic music. If you like Metallica, you`ll probably like Vivaldi. Leave your "tribe "as early as possible To know the history of a specific genre, helps to understand that kind of music. Didn`t know nothing about blues as a teenager, but loved HardRock....and didn`t like Led Zeppelin. The understanding helps to feel it. If you don`t feel it, you don`t understand it. But you don`t have to like it. The charts2023 are an impertinence, like my english...

A wise man once said "Listen to Andrew Scheps"

I put the transcript of this into ChatGPT and it created a small black hole

Very tangential, but I got interested really in why are there so little amount of women in the mixing industry. So I started listening how people talk about why they ended up with audio. So far I never heard that anything gender related, but things like "I'm a nerd, and I got sucked into this, because I have found it fascinating."

the cup of coffee is making me so nervous.

When drum machines were invented, they said it would replace all drummers. We know how that worked out. I don't know if technology will ever replace real humans playing real instruments.

A.I is great. But my brain is greater. Andrew's brain is ever greater and he won't be proven wrong.

AI = Boring Records… You should hear that, creative people!

Machine learning is really cool for some things.... Right now people in charge of AI "songwriting" services have been massively cheating to try to make I have good performances... And human like timing It literally just stealing existing performances without consent... And morphine more than one voice together... Again without consent.... I'm trying to use AI to change the melodies and the performances enough that it will get by existing copyright infringement laws. These lights were never made for the era we live in. And the laws need to account for that. This direct stealing and morphine without your performances without permission needs to end!

Eventually, inevitably, creative work will be replaced by AI. That's just reality. Ai can do what we can do, very soon. Scheps is underestimating what AI can do. Our brains do the exact same thing: It combines the things we've heard into new things. AI can do the same thing, and is in fact already doing that. Neither an AI nor a human brain can create something from nothing. Both are neural networks that learn by training.