The Mr. Bill Podcast28 Mar 2024

MBP #144 Zach Evans

Zach Evans is the head of the Harmonai research lab, the music research wing of Stability AI, working on open-source generative AI tools for musicians.

"We're launching new models and features in Stable Audio (www.stableaudio.com) including the ability to upload your own audio for style transfer. We're also working on new open-source text-to-audio models and improvements to Dance Diffusion."

Zach Evans Links

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Background
01:26 Dance Diffusion: An Overview
14:34 Inference and Output Generation
25:00 The Subset of Sound and Music
30:16 Current Projects and Future Plans
34:29 Why is GPU faster for this kind of stuff?
36:07 Main use case of text-based version
37:49 Challenges with text prompts for audio
39:18 Improving control mechanisms for models
42:06 The core process of generative AI
43:56 The future of AI in the audio space
46:03 AI models and overfitting
47:19 Automated mixing and mastering
50:22 Personal reinforcement learning
53:08 AI as a tool, not a replacement for humans
56:33 The impact of AI on jobs and artistry
58:23 The importance of personal taste and ownership in art
01:00:32 The complexity of AI's impact on the music industry
01:01:36 Where to find Zach Evans and his work

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