any film buff knows that music adds a
whole other dimension to the drama on
the screen as a huge moving art to me
it's one of the most important elements
finding or composing the right music is
no simple task but one company is trying
to change that using the power of AI I'm
Arjun dot with NVIDIA and this is Imai
as a composer writer's block is probably
the most dreadful thing so what we came
up with is this algorithm that can
compose a lot of music very fast and
provide them as extremely fast to
clients IVA is an artificial
intelligence that composes music for
films TV shows games any kind of
entertainment content this is quite
different from what's out there what
we're trying to do is create deep
learning algorithm that creates music at
the same level of top composers so music
full of emotions it was exactly this
kind of emotional resonance we wanted
when we were searching for an original
composition for Nvidia's annual
conference about AI the Nvidia GT C
project started when Nvidia reached out
to us started talking about how IVA
works and eventually they told us about
their project to tell the story from the
perspective of an artificial
intelligence in their keynote
introduction so on behalf IVA we were
very happy to agree to make the music
for the video
having AI help speed up the creative
process is interesting but I wanted to
know how Ava knows what to compose we
sit down with the client they tell us
what they need is it an emotional song
is it an uplifting song and then they
might tell us okay I need Ava to learn
in the style of this specific composer
and maybe they need music in the south
Mozart or Beethoven every project is
different in Nvidia's case and we
deliver some sample tracks and we
decided a subset of a database was
similar to those tracks so we retrain
either so how did Ava learn to be a
classical composer it starts with a huge
database of classical music that's
stored in MIDI format this means that
the computer knows every note in court
that's played including the pacing and
rhythm using a recurrent neural network
it looks for patterns in the selected
tracks to understand the basic style of
the music ava practices by predicting
what notes will come next in the track
once it gets good at these predictions
it creates a set of rules for that style
of music it's now ready to create an
original score
that sounds incredible but what is
stopping Ava from simply copying bits
from different songs and calling the
result an original composition using GPU
computing who have created what we call
a plagiarism checker which is able to
understand whether a created track is
partly or fully plagiarized from the
database the AAI learn from and once the
client is satisfied with the music were
able to have humans orchestrate the the
piece which means converting it from
piano music to orchestral music adding
different instruments then once the
client is happy that we're able to
record it with musicians
I was surprised at how emotional the
music was but that may be because
there's still a lot of humans involved
can a I really take it to the next level
to a judge music implies to be outside
and to look from out outside and when
I'm playing when I'm conducting whenever
I'm conducting the music I must be in
the very heart of the music but I think
it's a big chance for creators and
musician to use technology in order to
ask it to push us to excellence so in
order to continue developing the
capabilities of the artificial
intelligence we have three features in
mind the first one is creating a musical
ear so Ava will be able to understand if
music is good or not because so far it's
been and how it work we've been going
behind the AI to choose whether a piece
is fitting a client requirement or not
the second feature is allowing Ava to
compose full full orchestra directly and
the third feature is allowing Ava to
read a script of a film or video game
extract the Mattocks and emotions and
then directly map that into music if
there was any doubt that Ava is truly a
composer that question has been answered
ava has been recognized by sa CEM a
French organization that protects the
rights of composers having an artificial
intelligence recognizing an author's
right Society means that all of her
composition are protected
copyright
I am the tutor of this artificial
intelligence until she becomes more
independent and she meant space herself
and has even more rights to the eyes of
law
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