I Asked ChatGPT To Write Jazz

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[davidscanlan]

4:37 "Which was completely wrong according to what I asked it to do, but that's ok because it's kind of interesting" Spoken like a true jazz musician

[samsam]

I love how confident ChatGPT answers almost every question just to completely retreat when you call it bs.

[tailwindmechanics]

I'm a software engineer with 14 years experience, of all the questions I asked chat gpt it got 100% of them wrong. It is good at giving sort of surface to mid level generic advice, but once it gets specific then it's just very good at being confidently incorrect

[lordneeko]

I spend a LOT of time testing chatGPT. It needs coaching. Sometimes it doesn't catch the context of everything you asked it for. Sometimes you need to go back and say "hey you forgot about this part that I asked about" and it'll try again. Ultimately one of the cool parts about using the tool is that you can take the thoughts that are in your brain and put them down on paper and it'll operate as a great "friend"' that you can bounce ideas off of.

[kalechips]

You know what? The fact that it put out anything palatable is still absolutely insane to me.

[Incubishhh]

Hi! I 1000% am sure you don’t remember me, but I served you at a restaurant I used to work at one time! You let me take a picture with you, which I’m very grateful for. I just wanted to say thank you! Since then, you’ve inspired me to embrace my musical side, and I’ve now released 2 songs, working on an album!!!! You’ve taught me so much the past years. Thank you, thank you, thank you ❤

[merseyviking]

A comment written by ChatGPT:

Great video Charles! It's fascinating to see how ChatGPT can understand and generate musical patterns and structure. The generated music is definitely coherent and sometimes pleasing, it's clear that GPT has a good understanding of music. However, it's also important to remember that while GPT can help with inspiration and generate starting points, it still lacks the creativity and human touch that a human musician would bring to a piece of music. I look forward to seeing further developments in this area and how it can be integrated with human musicians in the future. Keep up the great work!

[quinnobi]

I'm 3 minutes in and I'm more impressed with Charles' ability to take some chords and make something that sounds good than I am that ChatGPT came up with the chords.

[StefanReich]

"You are correct, I made a mistake" is such a ChatGPT staple answer 😄 Sometimes it actually means something, other times... it actually means nothing. ChatGPT is just saying this because it's an appropriate thing to say. It's a language model after all, so its goal is to imitate people.

[Rachelebanham]

as a software engineer, ChatGPT also produces some horrifying results. More importantly it doubles down on sincerely believing what it's done is right.

[CephalonBread]

*this* is how I think ai should be applied to the arts. Yea it spat out some chords, but the actual playing was entirely up for interpretation by the artist.

[brianspenst]

Congrats! You managed to get it to initially write an early 80s CCM song for David Meece.

[scurfle]

I think what happened with the F-Dm7-G7-Cmaj7 progression it gave was a problem with its training (as most of these problems are). It is only very familiar with a ii-V-I in C, since that's the most common key to learn these things on Google (the source of its training). So it gave you a simple progression (ii-V-I in C), and *then* took your request to be in F as "being in the key of F simply means you start on F 😃" and just gave you F plus a ii-V-I in C. I really doubt it was going for a vi-ii-V-I, especially considering the preface it gave you about non-extended ii-V-I's.

This kind of issue is really common, I've found. It finds one part of what you want separately from another part, so you end up not having your requests merge together as you intended.

[robertyboberty]

I hope pop producers start using this because it has far more harmonic interest than most current pop

[CardboardCast]

That F turnaround was dope. Good job AI.

[martinsazar]

Great experiment, Charles, I'm also obsessing over GPT! But I think you missed GPT's confussion in your jazz question. GPT correctly identified the most common progression in jazz (II/V/I) and it provided two correct examples: one landing in Cmaj7 and one in Gmaj7. The problem appeared when it tried to generate chord progressions “in F”. Instead of transposing, GPT simply added an F chord ahead of each example, resulting in the bizarre F + Dm|G7|C and F + Abm|Db|Gb.

The final answer is harmonically wrong, of course, and it doesn't look like a human mistake. But it isn’t 100% misled nor random either. It actually makes sense if you think about it in terms of statistical linguistics, which is how GPT works: in actual speech, the linguistic context of expressions like “progression in F”, “progression starting with F” and “progression in the key of F” is highly overlapping, so GPT's confusion isn't surprising… To get a better answer, you can reply: “Your examples include correct II/V/I progressions, which are indeed common in jazz, but they are not in the key of F. Try again and make sure the chord progression starts and lands in F.”

In any case, GPT is evidently self-correcting quite fast – probably learning from its massive usage. I've just asked it the same question after watching your video, and the answers I received are already more concrete and relevant:

Me: "Write a jazz chord progression in F major."
GPT: "Fmaj7, Bb7, C7, Fmaj7" – that’s a very boring I/IV/V/I, but it is correct and it is in F.
Me: Make it more interesting.
GPT: "Fmaj7, Ab7, Db7, Gbmaj7, C7, Fmaj7" – this one looks pretty much like the second one you got, but now GPT introduced a dominant C7 at the end to effectively land in F!

[Kictor]

I love how even when it was wrong you still found what it made to sound cool and tried to make it work instead of just discrediting it as a whole. It was super refreshing!

[aronsebo]

2:13 sounds like when you buy your first house in Sims.

[mrkosmos]

I've asked ChatGPT a couple of different things, including creating ASCII art, creating and decoding Gcode for a 3D printed or milled object, creating OpenSCAD code for3D modeling, writing general code for programming, and writing text.
The fact that it knows how to make these things is astounding on its own, but for now I'd stick to text.

[stephenshoihet]

I tried it out for some poetry and song lyrics, what I got was some really bad stuff that you might expect from someone in grade 4 😆 but it had some ok ideas that might be good as a starting point. So far it doesn't seem any better than many of the tools which have been out for years... it makes me wonder about the stories I've seen with teachers saying it wrote some of the best, well thought out essays they've ever read.