{"id":321817,"date":"2019-04-20T06:43:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/listen-to-brutal-death-metal-made-by-a-neural-network.php"},"modified":"2019-04-20T06:43:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T10:43:17","slug":"listen-to-brutal-death-metal-made-by-a-neural-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/listen-to-brutal-death-metal-made-by-a-neural-network.php","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2019\/04\/brutal-death-metal-neural-network-300x158.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"A neural network is grinding out the blast beats, super-distorted guitars and bellowing vocals of death metal&nbsp;&mdash; and livestreaming it.\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Death Metal<\/h2><p>In a project called &ldquo;Relentless Doppelganger,&rdquo; a&nbsp;neural network&nbsp;is grinding out the blast beats, super-distorted guitars, and bellowing vocals of death metal.<\/p><p>The best part of all:&nbsp;it&rsquo;s streaming its brutal creations 24 hours a day on YouTube&nbsp;&mdash; an intriguing and public example of AI that&rsquo;s now able to generate convincing imitations of human art.<\/p><h2>Dadabots<\/h2><p>The neural network is the work of Dadabots, a research duo that experiments with creating music using artificial intelligence tools.<\/p><p>Th<strong>e<\/strong> death metal project, which they trained using tracks by death metal band Archspire, is the first that they&rsquo;ve livestreamed instead of releasing as an album, and the change in format had everything to do with the quality of the neural network&rsquo;s output.<\/p><p>In Dadabots&rsquo;&nbsp;previous experiments, which dabbled in <a href=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/2556\/this-frostbitten-black-metal-album-was-created-by-an-artificial-intelligence?zd=1&amp;zi=6gnzy5cu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black metal and Beatles-inspired tracks<\/a>, only about 5 percent of the AI-generated tracks were usable, co-creator CJ Carr told Futurism, and the programmers had to curate it.<\/p><p>&ldquo;The remarkable part is the high quality-to-shit ratio,&rdquo; Carr told Futurism of this new project. &ldquo;Here, we livestream 100 percent of it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Zero curation necessary.&rdquo;<\/p><h2>Black Metal<\/h2><p>Part of the success of &ldquo;Relentless Doppelganger,&rdquo; Carr suspects, is the relentless speed of Archspire&rsquo;s songs.<\/p><p>&ldquo;It seems the faster the blast beats, the more stable the music,&rdquo; he told Futurism. &ldquo;Archspire is insanely fast.&rdquo;<\/p><p><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/xwnzm7\/this-youtube-channel-streams-ai-generated-black-metal-247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This YouTube Channel Streams AI-Generated Death Metal 24\/7<\/a>&nbsp;[<em>Motherboard<\/em>]<\/p><p><strong>More on AI-generated music:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-generated-music-legal-clusterfuck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Expert: AI-Generated Music Is A &ldquo;Total Legal Clusterf*ck&rdquo;<\/em><\/a><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/brutal-death-metal-neural-network\/\">Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>Original post:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/brutal-death-metal-neural-network\/\" title=\"Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network\">Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Death Metal In a project called \u201cRelentless Doppelganger,\u201d a\u00a0neural network\u00a0is grinding out the blast beats, super-distorted guitars, and bellowing vocals of death metal. The best part of all:\u00a0it\u2019s streaming its brutal creations 24 hours a day on YouTube\u00a0\u2014 an intriguing and public example of AI that\u2019s now able to generate convincing imitations of human art <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/listen-to-brutal-death-metal-made-by-a-neural-network.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}