Vaniver comments on AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol - Less Wrong

17 Post author: gjm 09 March 2016 12:22PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 09 March 2016 10:34:32PM 1 point [-]

However automated composition is something that a lot of people have experimented with before. So far there is nothing that works really well.

Emily Howell?

Comment author: Houshalter 10 March 2016 12:58:29AM 3 points [-]
Comment author: gjm 10 March 2016 12:47:57PM 1 point [-]

I think what Vaniver means is: It seems that Emily Howell works pretty damn well, contrary to your claim that nothing does. (By, so far as I understand, means very different from any sort of neural network.)

Comment author: 0mnus 18 March 2016 12:19:39PM 1 point [-]

I know the conversation here has run its course, but I just wanted to add: whether or not Emily Howell is seen as something that "works really well" as an automated system is probably up for debate. It seems to require quite a bit of input from Cope himself in order to come up with sensible, interesting music. For example, one of the most popular pieces from Emily Howell is this fugue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLR-_c_uCwI - we really don't know how much influence Cope had in creating this piece of music, because the process of composition was not transparent at all.