> given some of the other impressive things it can do
I think that's been exaggerated. It's very good at generating
plausible-sounding text responses to prompts, everything else looks
cherry-picked.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:54 PM Nate <therealnathanstew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hah yes. It once said \begn{music} and i said "are you making this up?"
> "I'm sorry, you're correct. The start tag should be \begin{lilypond}.
>
> Its super handy but you have to watch it. It can be a pathological liar. I
> asked it how to do something on the Akai Mini Play and it said to use this
> button On the upper left corner. when i asked for clarification instead of
> admitting it was mistaken it said it was white and next to another button.
> Twice it doubled down before admitting it was wrong.
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 6:44 PM Saul Tobin <saul.james.to...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've seen some examples of other people succeeding in getting ChatGPT
>> with GPT4 to compose simple music in other text based music formats. I've
>> had limited success getting it to output Lilypond code. It is able to
>> correctly structure the code with a score block, nested contexts, and
>> appropriately named variables, and bar checks at the end of each measure.
>> It seems to struggle to create rhythms that fit within the time signature
>> beyond extremely simple cases. It also seems to struggle a lot to
>> understand what octave pitches will be in when using relative mode.
>>
>> It also seems to have a lot of trouble keeping track of the relationship
>> between notes entered in different simultaneous expressions. Just asking it
>> to repeat back which notes appear in each voice on each beat, GPT4
>> frequently gives stubbornly incorrect answers about the music it generated.
>> This makes it very difficult to improve its output by giving feedback.
>>
>> I'm curious whether anybody else has tried playing with this. I have to
>> imagine that GPT4 has the potential to produce higher quality Lilypond
>> output, given some of the other impressive things it can do. Perhaps it
>> needs to be provided with a large volume of musical repertoire in Lilypond
>> format.
>>
>
