{"id":9529,"date":"2019-03-25T19:27:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T23:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9529"},"modified":"2019-03-25T19:27:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T23:27:50","slug":"personalized-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9529","title":{"rendered":"Personalized music"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, I started listening to Google Music’s personalized music stream.<\/p>\n

I am suitably impressed. The AI is… uncanny.<\/p>\n

Sure, it picked songs that I expressed a preference for, such as songs from the golden age of radio that I happen to enjoy. But as I continue listening, it is presenting an increasingly eclectic, enjoyable selection. Some of it is quite new, from artists I never heard about, yet… it’s music I like. For some reason (maybe because I am in Canada? Or because it knows that I am trying to improve my French? Or was it a preference I once expressed for \u00c9dith Piaf?) it started presenting a whole bunch of French music, and again… some of it is quite likable. And now that I purposefully sought out a few classical composers, the AI realized that it can throw classical pieces at me as well, which is how I am suddenly listening to Schubert’s Ave Maria<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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As a matter of fact, the eclectic choices made by Google’s AI remind me of two radio programs from the CBC’s past, long gone, long forgotten by most: Juergen Goth’s Disc Drive<\/em> and Laurie Brown’s The Signal<\/em>. Both these shows introduced me to music from excellent artists that I would otherwise never have heard about.<\/p>\n

And now Google’s AI is doing the same thing.<\/p>\n

I am also getting the sense that the more I listen, the bolder the AI becomes as it makes its choices. Instead of confining me to a bubble of musical genres of my own making, it is venturing farther and farther away from my presumed comfort zone.<\/p>\n

Which is quite impressive. But also leaves me wondering how long before our machine overlords finally decide to take over.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I started listening to Google Music’s personalized music stream. I am suitably impressed. The AI is… uncanny. Sure, it picked songs that I expressed a preference for, such as songs from the golden age of radio that I happen to enjoy. But as I continue listening, it is presenting an increasingly eclectic, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybernetics","category-music","category-programming","category-58-id","category-4-id","category-36-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9535,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions\/9535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}