My New Year’s resolution is to eat several types of pasta that I haven’t before. Also, I’d like to get better at revenge.

doing a little back-of-the-envelope math here while working on a history of Music #AI: a computation that takes my current laptop 2 minutes to complete would have taken David Cope’s or H.J. Maxwell’s computer over 1 year of uninterrupted work.

A hamburger should cost $30

Ok we can all go home now. newscientist.com/article/241546…

I was writing about the myriad reasons for why musical datasets are so small, and just wrote the sentence, "There's less cheesecake in the world than there is cheese" and I think I'll never construct a better metaphor. #music #musicScience #musicAI

Here's my first foray into music & AI! It's about interpreting Generative Pretrained Models (GPTs) by mapping internal connections under the hood, and by stopping its training periodically to see when/how it "learns" #musictheory concepts tinyurl.com/bdfvuya4 #musicscience

Workshopping titles for the new book:

How much much smaller are musical datasets than other media? This lil infographic shows how long it would take an immortal human to consume various content sources. More curated and accessible musical datasets are quite small compared to what big-brand LLMs use! #musicScience

I’ve got a pretty hot take (for music theory) out today, coauthored with a veritable flamboyance of amazing scholars! #musicScience #musicTheory mtosmt.org/issues/mto.24.…

I'm giving the keynote "Why is AI so Bad at Music (at least so far)?" at the New England Music Library Association May 31st at Smith. Reg. is free for 1st-time attendees, so if you're looking for some hot takes on a Friday afternoon, come heckle me! nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/nemla-meetings…

The amazing Patrick Hicks interviewed me on his substack podcast about music and AI! Check it out: patrickhicks.substack.com/p/why-does-ai-…

This morning I signed a contract with Routledge for my next book.... The AI Music Problem: Why Machine Learning Conflicts With Musical Creativity It's due to them early fall, so it'll probably be in print early summer 2025!

If you're aching for more #ChrisContent about music and the computational humanities, check out the most recent episode of the Café Technika podcast! #musicScience #musicTheory podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eps…