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  • The Plan for AI — An Introduction

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      When Skiptune was started at the turn of the last century, machine learning was rudimentary and artificial intelligence (AI) was limited to such accomplishments as turning speech into text.  Accuracy was 85 to 95 percent, which means 10 mistakes every 100 words.  Face detection was limited to detecting a face, but not identifying it.…

  • Introducing the Skiptune AI Project

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    Problem to Be Solved The Skiptune database is a database of 83,000 melodies from around the world and across several centuries.  These melodies are encoded in a special way (a pitch difference followed by a duration ratio), and we want to explore whether an AI model can learn melodic structure from this representation.   The…