{"id":1517,"date":"2020-12-02T05:37:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T05:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1330125"},"modified":"2020-12-02T05:37:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T05:37:51","slug":"googles-ai-experiment-syncs-every-bad-guy-song-cover-in-an-endless-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AI experiment syncs every \u2018Bad Guy\u2019 song cover in an endless video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019ve seen some cool AI-based musical experiments from Google\u2019s team recently, including <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2017\/02\/17\/googles-ai-can-jam-with-you-on-a-virtual-piano\/\">a virtual piano<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/10\/01\/googles-new-machine-learning-tool-turns-your-awful-humming-into-a-beautiful-violin-solo\/\">a voice-to-music converter.<\/a>&nbsp;The company\u2019s latest experiment is a bit different: an infinite version of Billie Eilish\u2019s hit song, \u2018Bad Guy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry. It\u2019s not just one song being repeated again and again. Google\u2019s team has developed a tool that syncs all the covers of the song on YouTube and plays them bits their portion sequentially. So, imagine a montage of covers being played from the beginning till the end, and then it starts over once the song finishes.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/readme\/2020\/11\/26\/how-to-build-a-search-engine-for-criminal-data\/\">How to build a search engine for criminal data<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you visit <a href=\"https:\/\/billie.withyoutube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the site<\/a> and hit the Autoplay button, the song will automatically start playing and video clips on the screen will change every few seconds. You can click on hashtags like #guitar, #accordion, #animals, or #classical to play one kind of videos sequentially.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/H42pj1zg9XOTWOxIKU\/giphy.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>To create this tool, the team used YouTube\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/2797370?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ContentID system<\/a> to identify \u2018Bad Guy\u2019&nbsp;covers that resemble the original tune and weed out videos where the song is just playing in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Then it trained a recurrent neural network \u2014 often used in speech recognition \u2014 to recognize beats of the song and line up the cover&nbsp;to create a seamless transition between videos.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty cool experiment, and I wish Google would make a tool to discover awesome covers of songs that I like based on the AI\u2019s&nbsp;learnings from it.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the Infinite&nbsp;Bad Guy tool <a href=\"https:\/\/billie.withyoutube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published December 2, 2020 \u2014 05:37 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/12\/02\/googles-ai-experiment-syncs-every-bad-guy-song-cover-in-an-endless-video\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve seen some cool AI-based musical experiments from Google\u2019s team recently, including a virtual piano and a voice-to-music converter.&nbsp;The company\u2019s latest experiment is a bit different: an infinite version of Billie Eilish\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}