The rapid rise of OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has left many wondering what else will be changed by generative AI tools. If a Google research paper released this week is anything to go by, songwriting will be—and perhaps the music industry.
The paper describes a tool called MusicLM that “can transform whistled and hummed melodies according to the style described in a text caption.” It can also generate “high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as ‘a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff.’”
