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AI Bots Pick The Hits of Tomorrow
Wolverine Inspector writes "The Music Industry uses a product called HSS (Hit Song Science) made by Spain's Polyphonic HMI. According to The Guardian "while no one's talking about it, it seems that the whole record industry is already using AI to choose hits. From unsigned acts dreaming in their garage, to multinationals such as Sony and Universal, everyone is clandestinely using a new and controversial technology to gain an edge on their competitors."
Even though it costs about $5,200 US/$6,500, many artists are starting to buy it to help them write succesfull songs."
Air Supply and Ashlee Simpson.
No mod points, no meta-moderating/Firehose/all the other free work Slashdot wants me to do.
The program works by applying the formula. It takes three variables.
Boobs
The artist must have boobs. The larger they are, the higher this value.
Blandness
The blander it is, the higher this value.
Beat
The stronger the beat, the higher this value.
These are multiplied together.
B * B * B = X
If X is greater than or equal to the Olivia Newton-John quotient, a recognized standard throughout the popular music business, the song will be a hit and we release an album.
If X is lower, we don't do one.
Q: Are there a lot of these kinds of artists?
You wouldn't believe.
Q: Which record label to do you work for?
A major one.
Unknown host pong.
Next up: bots that generate pop music.
They already have bots that do that, they call them boy bands. It was supposed to be bot bands, but I think someone in the 80's screwed it up with Menudo, and the name stuck. What are you going to do...
- The first step in the process for our technologies is to analyze a representative sample of music (up to date we have
- analized more than 1 Million tracks)
Analized? Analized? - what dedication these folks have. Brings tears to my eyes.Does this remind anyone of the Monty Python skit where they use mathematicians to create the world's funniest joke, and use it to get Nazis to die laughing?