"I am in the library where a voice is raised." This is the first verse of the first piece of classical music composed by a generative artificial intelligence, brought to light by technology pioneer and VP Audio at Stability AI Vice President Ed Newton-Rex.
This musician and entrepreneur has announced the creation of the work as a revolution, since he wrote his 'I stand in the library', a piece for choir and piano, with a poem produced by OpenAI's GPT3 generative AI model, ago just a few months and with a total duration of 15 minutes.
The work has already premiered at the Live from London online classical music festival, performed by the choral group VOCES8, and which was created with a simple directive to ChatGPT3: “Next, a poem about music and loneliness”, where the iconic verse that could go down to posterity came out in the first place.
"Probably about five or ten times I deleted a line and told it to regenerate because it got stuck in a loop," explains Newton-Rex in an interview for TNW, where he stressed that his role was not that decisive: "Actually, it's not i did so much. She'd decide where she ended up, she'd get to the end of a verse and think, 'Okay, that's a good ending.'
Newton-Rex believes that AI can help humans be more creative: “I enjoyed that process so much that I ended up writing a bunch more pieces for choir and piano, and now it's become one of my favorite styles. And that's interesting, because if I hadn't used GPT3 on that particular day, my writing style would be very different now."
In this sense, the composer insists on the power of tools like ChatGPT to overcome mental blocks: “AI can get us out of creative loops, or it can simply give us new ideas. It's like being in a studio composing with someone."
