MusicLM

MusicLM, an AI model that can generate high-fidelity music from text. MusicLM creates music at a constant 24 kHz throughout a number of minutes by modelling the conditional music generating process as a hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modelling problem. ChatGPT is just the beginning. MusicLM can also be used to generate music in a variety of styles, from classical to pop.

ChatGPT is not just a product or a service, it is the beginning of a new life with Large Multi-Modal Language Models. They have come to complement and supplement the smart professionals / regular users as nothing even imagined. *OpenAI with ChatGPT took the lead,* but Google being the market leaders cannot afford to be left behind.

Recently, there have been product after product announcements, demos, work in progress developments with a promise to be the market leader in this area in the days to come. Gemini and Palm-2, you would have heard of and may be even the MedPlam-2 and its cyber security variant, SecPalm-2 are in news. And now on the cards is most innovative and insanely creative product in the making from the stables of the famed Google is MusicLM.

MusicLM is text to music generator AI tool which is bound to disrupt the music industry way beyond what happened with the onset of Internet. This literally has a text prompt and then it actually makes a realistic sounding music track.

MusicLM, is a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as calming violin melody backed by distorted guitar riff. The demo starts with auto generation from rich captions. It is very accurate in this totally new kind of area. The music remains consistent of several minutes. You don’t need a deep sense of understanding of music to generate succinct music. Screen writers are already being up in arms against ChatGPT and how will the copyright issue be handled for music generated by MusicLM is the question

Overall, MusicLM has the potential to be a disruptive force in the music industry. AI systems may surpass human expertise in many areas and be as productive as large corporations. Superintelligence has the potential for both great benefits and risks. It could create a more prosperous future, but there are also dangers that need to be managed.

Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, President & CEO, VARINDIA