"PLAYSTATION STARTUP," Continued by a Neural Network (OpenAI's Jukebox)

READ IF YOU'RE CONFUSED: The ALGORITHM™ appears to be giving this video in particular a boost so let me take this moment to thank everyone for checking it out and to those wondering what on earth any of this is - here's an explanation: Jukebox is a neural network developed by the company OpenAI. The network is trained on a wide variety of artists, music genres and over a million different songs. Sadly, OpenAI does not appear to be interested in disclosing what exactly it's entire dataset consist of. What they can tell you is that the network is trained on so many different aspects of music that it's capable of not only producing its own music but continuing existing music as well.

In the case of this video, I took the PS1 startup sound and requested that the network attempt to continue it with no specific artist or genre conditioning in mind. The artist and genre conditioning are important because although Jukebox can go off the rails no matter what you set it's parameters too, setting them to "unknown" is just a more blatant way of telling it to do whatever it wants. And when I say whatever it wants I mean WHATEVER IT WANTS. My Gamecube startup sound video is a good example as each sample appeared to continue under completely different genres despite them being generated in the same session together.

One last thing I want to address are the viewers questioning the legitimacy of the network and how it's able to pull instruments and vocals out of thin air and the truth is that the network is designed to do that. The sounds you hear the network making are coming from millions of songs that it's trained on and most of the time the network has no idea what to do which is why it generates gibberish vocals, strange sounds and random instruments. I can't just feed an untrained network the startup sound to a video game console and expect it to develop a massive understanding of what music is.

-Original Description-

Had this idea in mind for a while.

Video made with:
Adobe Audition
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
Jukebox by OpenAI

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