18. Can AI Listen to Music?

Can an AI actually listen to music, as opposed to merely hearing sound waves and processing them? In this episode, listen to hear how Hume AI, the first empathic AI, does attempting to listen to music, and how ChatGPT analyzes its performance afterwards.

To test whether Hume can hear the emotion sung within a song, distinct from the lyrics, I had ChatGPT write emotionless lyrics, then had Suno generate songs using these lyrics with different emotions. Listen to the full songs of each emotion used in this episode below.

Observations 1 (sad)
https://suno.com/song/7ad3f15d-8171-4b70-8e16-9736ac8dc806

Observations 1 (happy)
https://suno.com/song/06722087-631f-4a4d-909d-5bfbf5458ea4 

Observations 1 (folk song expressing boredom)
https://suno.com/song/a40e427e-0f99-49e7-9357-2b3454423fea