I see that the concept of “tempo octave” is being used by some researchers in the music information retrieval (MIR) community. This is a confusing term from a musical perspective. Here I explain why this is a bad idea. Octaves An octave is a core term in (Western) music theory related to describing intervals, relationships between two notes (and tones!) with a frequency ratio of 2:1. Here is an example of an octave: ...
Today, we had the PhD defence of Olgerta Asko at RITMO. Her research is super interesting in itself (check out this feature story for an overview). This blog post is following up on one of the points she made during her trial lecture that I hadn’t thought about before: the difference between generalisation, inference, and deliberation. Towards deliberation Olga argued that current AI—here understood as large language models (LLMs)—are based on generalisation. They extract patterns from a lot of data and apply them broadly. As we have seen with recent commercial products and as I have explored in many ways on this blog, LLMs excel at this task. ...