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Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2

By : Joseph Babcock, Raghav Bali
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Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2

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By: Joseph Babcock, Raghav Bali

Overview of this book

Machines are excelling at creative human skills such as painting, writing, and composing music. Could you be more creative than generative AI? In this book, you’ll explore the evolution of generative models, from restricted Boltzmann machines and deep belief networks to VAEs and GANs. You’ll learn how to implement models yourself in TensorFlow and get to grips with the latest research on deep neural networks. There’s been an explosion in potential use cases for generative models. You’ll look at Open AI’s news generator, deepfakes, and training deep learning agents to navigate a simulated environment. Recreate the code that’s under the hood and uncover surprising links between text, image, and music generation.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Getting started with music generation

Music generation is an inherently complex and difficult task. Doing so with the help of algorithms (machine learning or otherwise) is even more challenging. Nevertheless, music generation is an interesting area of research with a number of open problems and fascinating works.

In this section, we will build a high-level understanding of this domain and understand a few important and foundational concepts.

Computer-assisted music generation or, more specifically, deep music generation (due to the use of deep learning architectures) is a multi-level learning task composed of score generation and performance generation as its two major components. Let's briefly discuss each of these components:

  • Score generation: A score is a symbolic representation of music that can be used/read by humans or systems to produce music. To draw an analogy, we can safely consider the relationship between scores and music to be similar to...