I challenged ChatGPT to write the funkiest bass solo EVER

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“The only thing I really changed…” 😂 Epic.

[@nullify5031]

Epico

[@m.a.6478]

Yeah, that was easy.

[@KrizAkoni]

😂

[@killroy42]

Yeah, I do that all the time!

[@GameTimeWhy]

It's like those online recipe comments "5 star! I just swapped the raisins for chocolate and added a cup of sugar for taste. Added some powdered cinnamon."

[@fernandocutire4]

ChatGPT can't replace GOATs

[@nobodynowhere8061]

Correction, it can’t replace the goats YET

[@deborah_chrysoprase]

No, but the GOATs will eventually learn how to use AI to help them GOAT even GOATier

[@shaurya5322]

whats the sing name? and who made it

[@janet.snakehole]

Do Androids Dream of Electric GOATs?

[@erlendbanken6517]

Yea, cause its a language bot

[@paulbbryan]

I welcome the future where the world is run by machines and humans live in luxury doing the only thing that machines can't - bring the funk.

[@CharlesBerthoud]

Haha, let’s hope that’s actually what happens 🤣

[@guillermor.r4831]

if it were the future they could already do it and with the style of the musician you ask for or creating a new one xd

[@ThePandaAgenda]

@@guillermor.r4831 they can. Just not ChatGPT

[@noophia]

that sounds like "The Culture" novels of Iain Banks

[@ArcalArrows]

Until Funkbot 10000 appears

[@maxprofane]

Legend says he's still explaining how he came up with that solo to this day.

[@tpocain]

"It's a lot of repetition..." *D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D* *Falls asleep from boredom*

[@ThePandaAgenda]

Better watch the Scott Pilgrim bass battle from the movie or comics

[@Rude_i_Wredne]

repetition delegitimizes

[@brandn562]

Z-z-z-z-z more like

[@mrbencker1074]

i mean if you play low and high D with slap and pluck it sound pretty funky

[@JakeWitmer]

AGI gets mad because bass solo isn't being played with right timbre....nukes humans

[@SephBentos]

Love that the AI’s idea of funky is just straight eighth notes 😅

[@smoothyodaproductions4373]

Yeah lol, like cmon this isnt ACDC

[@burburger1379]

Dude you have to, just HAVE to do a video on that sick solo you just did near the end. It would be the greatest thing ever and just that bit of slap gave me chills

[@Torquetrr1]

Fr i was hoping he got it from somewhere else

[@TheDSasterX]

BRO you literally just explained to chatgpt how to emulate your style. Now you're absolutely replaced as soon as it watches this video! 💀

[@skierpage]

All future versions of generative AIs will train on petabytes of computer-generated material. The vintage 2022 AIs could turn out to be the best ones, because everything since will have learned by gazing in the mirror

[@theseangle]

@@skierpage wait that's actually a good point 🤔

[@gavinfinch2393]

@@skierpage I’m seeing this happen with ChatGPT already. At first it generated pretty interesting, unique responses to my writing prompts. But as more people use it, I feel like the responses are becoming more and more generic, because it’s building off itself.

[@skierpage]

@@gavinfinch2393 That's interesting, because I thought ChatGPT doesn't retrain as it goes along; it's still using the giant neutral net built on the training run that GPT-3 did against a web crawl over a year ago. Wikipedia: "ChatGPT has limited knowledge of events that occurred after 2021." It's been fine-tuned and adjusted since then, but I thought that was primarily to shut down people getting past its protections against producing false or harmful information.

[@TheDSasterX]

@@skierpage Only if people let them/want them to. You make a data set and then feed it in. If you don't want computer generated material then you won't put it in. Besides, it's not like people have been particularly creative recently. We're in an era of nostalgia farming that may actually never end. You only find real art on the fringes of society where it isn't that profitable.

[@hadziukzaba6924]

Charles is the only and best system for creating bass solos, so this computer is no match for it 😎

[@sunshinegoss3575]

Love how I understood all of that music theory but I still haven't memorized the fretboard on my bass

[@buffkangaroodog]

“The only thing I changed is I made it groove”

[@dongxingyaoyang8550]

Pls make that into a full song

[@TGWCasper]

I would listen already just this solo

[@unperrier5998]

I doubt chatGPT is the right cyber-musician to ask. There are other AI that compose music, especially classical music, that is breathtaking.

[@rbclima]

True! I love charles but let an AI learn his moves... Victors...fleas.. etc... after a while, I'm sure it would blow his mind

[@lartisan6274]

its would be a " type beat " something similar, ( study with data of classic, something familar ) u take Mozart u change some note , and finish.

[@MaleficRacing]

Indeed, I appreciate the humour, but we’ve had AI created music for years. This is using the wrong tool for the job for comedy.

[@Do_Not_Belong_to_this_World]

gpt can wright better music solos...

[@GuitarFRETBOARDHACKS]

Exactly what i was thinking. For the sake of how much it sucks AI might take over alot of musician jobs though, I like this video LMAO

[@TGWCasper]

That solo at the end was so good

[@brandongomesfernandes4828]

I started believing he’s actually a real human being, but quickly lost that hope in the end of the short

[@rileyclawson9323]

Straw Man. ChatGPT wasn't optimized for that. You're above this, CharlesBert.

[@NicoSuaveMusic]

The end sounds like every music theory class I have ever taken 💀

[@shivenbinesh410]

Had great fun learning that solo, should totally make it a full song.

[@NightwishArena]

Unbelievable. With those minor adjustments it was actually a great solo. We are so close to terminator era!

[@cyruskhalvati]

The bass in the intro to daft punks instant crush is a great example of how spamming the same exact note and just changing the octave can sometimes work amazingly.

[@IskaBiz-sl7fk]

you are a g love you charles

[@carcerate]

You are so humorous and you know music on a level beyond the understanding of the common man. I am glad that the human has beat the computer once again at this.

[@ByondRAGE]

a computer can't say f*ck it and just make a new sound out of your strings.

[@danetastic1]

I appreciate the humor here! An interesting follow-up experiment could be to have a prompt engineer try and deliver the result and see if there is any difference.

[@lewisjones284]

What was that really great bass solo in the middle?

[@itamarziskind993]

did you find out? if u did lmk

[@sujathaontheweb3740]

Brilliant! Loved this!

[@matrixphijr]

"So the only thing I really changed was--" *3 hours later*

[@7rixee]

When chat GPT watches this video, youre cooked

[@adrianlayman892]

The "minor 10th" had me DYING! God Bless you ALL!

[@danielwessel9884]

Charles is actually an AI from the distant future making fun of the older generation.

[@graaena]

I love everything you do. You the fkin king of slap, bass, funk, yada, all of it. ❤

[@peachius5984]

our jobs are safe yall

[@nicolasbeaudry6158]

One of the best bass player out here man your so funky. Your tone is out of this world❤

[@lachlanhenry486]

Can computer do math? No.

[@megaeliminator3260]

?

[@kingkestis6169]

?

[@mygills3050]

William Kahan inventing the dark art of floating point math to screw up ai half a century later

[@gabbyn.3049]

What

[@cyanideonfire5924]

You can't exactly judge with something that's in development and was just released, and it was not even created with music creation in mind

[@Spubaru4U]

😂AI will NEVER replace a humans creativity for music ❤

[@CharlesBerthoud]

At the very least, it’ll be one of the last things an AI can accurately imitate

[@litigioussociety4249]

It's just not there yet. These kinds of AI are really crappy searching software. In the near future everyone will have personal AI friends/assistants that will record everything, and work all the apps and things a person has. They'll learn what songs an individual likes and doesn't like, and based on that be able to at least create new songs that sound like lost songs of existing albums. As for creating a new genre, not so much, but I don't think they need to do that.

[@skierpage]

@@litigioussociety4249 artificial neural networks are NOTHING like "searching software"! Anyone trying to explain them as "just" something else, whether it's just an algorithm, just probabilities, just statistical inferences, just copying and pasting bits, is not helping. Generative AIs somehow create a compressed representation of the patterns in the petabytes of material they're trained on, by adjusting the strength of the connections between billions of artificial neurons, and can then somehow generate novel output from the "latent space" of those connections. The two "somehow"s are "just" AI programming, but 10 years ago nobody predicted the results we're now getting.

[@litigioussociety4249]

@@skierpage This was completely predicted. It was assumed that AI would get good enough to create new episodes of TV shows, and new songs with existing or deceased artists. We're not there yet, because of limitations in software. This is why personalized ones will make huge leaps and bounds through information they gather and share, because that will help the whole network or other systems innovate the apps and devices needed to allow AIs to do more and more. The personalized ones are the thing people fear, because they will be under some corporate umbrella, and therefore their ability to persuade and suggest, possibly even coerce, will give the creators a scary amount of power. The solution would be for the things to be open source, and be programmed with basic first principles when it comes to ethics, but that's not going to happen.

[@efhi]

@@litigioussociety4249 it doesn't matter how good AI gets at making music. It still won't be art. It's about the principle

[@baronvonlichtenstein]

My favorites are doo wop. Let's Twist Again or You're the one that I want from Grease. Awesome bass lines. The former obviously had some improvisation since he keeps changing it. The second is what drives the entire song. Not many songs are predominantly bass driven.

[@rojastegulu]

Bro AI is not here to generate you tabs, it will straight up generate the sound waves 💀 p scary stuff

[@_idk..-]

"So the only thing I really changed.." *Explains a whole book of 2300 pages*

[@Thronecrusher]

I heard that "ha-ha" from concept artists a year ago. Now they're crying.

[@BluesNickYT]

Ok thanks for telling me how you did that

[@joachimsandgaard]

Tell ChatGPT what you did to make it better, it might learn.

[@Alice-ui9oy]

I don't think chatgtp has been trained on much music. But given its understanding of alot of the nuances and complexities of the English language, I actually think it has capacity to be alot better if people like Charles were to teach it.

[@skierpage]

@@Alice-ui9oy OpenAI's Jukebox that learned to generate the audio waveforms of all kinds of music and singing (which should blow your mind 🤯) is almost 3 years old. I believe OpenAI will combine its next generation with training on text about music, lyrics, guitar tabs, MIDI, sheet music markup, and maybe even music videos. 2020 Jukebox's output sounds like a bunch of ace session musicians being goaded by a cocaine-fueled producer to come up with new ideas every 20 seconds. The updated version will be completely wild. It's going to be making endless background music for meditation, yoga, wine bars, working out, etc. And it could make novel music as good as DALL-E 2's digital art.

[@Alice-ui9oy]

@@skierpage thanks I'll check it out!

[@kaboggozadaniel3359]

Wow I love ur creativity

[@harrycrosswell2844]

Honestly, I give it < 5 years until full compositions in any style can be made by A.I., and thus, by anyone.

[@LoonyYunie]

Kinda ashamed to admit I'm a pretty novice musician and tend to lean on playing by ear quite a bit, so that ending kinda hurt a little 😂 Love your content, man, keep it coming! 💚

[@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother]

Artists are going to have to adapt and look to AI art for inspiration to further push their own boundaries. Or just ignore it and actually have fun with hobbies. Whether its visual or musical mediums. Look up "Bad Man" By Disturbed on youtube. IMO its a great mix of human and AI art that forms a cohesive concept and theme for the songs music video and gives punch/depth to the lyrics and weight to the already heavy metal. AI art isnt the end of the world lol.

[@OMGWTFWHYNO]

It's only does what you tell it to do... When you tell it to be it's own creativity, it's just going give you exactly what you don't want call creativity

[@rawonion3591]

Everyone who understood what he said 👇

[@AaronNGray]

In programming give it a faulty specification and it will go and implement it without question.

[@grayishhare]

yes ai will eventually surpass humans in composing

[@davidschwarzguitar6301]

Same goes for all creative stuff - it can write texts, that everybody can write and I think it’s his purpose to substitute monotonous human work. If you want to have written stuff of actual quality you can use it probably for Mindmaps etc

[@joshwoolems8815]

I love how he's trolling talking about 9ths and 10ths

[@MokyeMucus]

Hey you should post videos where you talk about music the way you did at the end, that was neat :)

[@AFN2750]

Because that’s not what that specific ai is for. Asking chatgpt for a bass solo is like asking the worlds greatest chef to paint you a portrait. It’s good at what it does, but that ain’t it, and someone else does it way better

[@seymourglass26]

Same with poetry. Chat GPT writes only in rhyming couplets inside of 4-line stanzas that explicitly just talk about the subject you fed in as if it's a DJ name-dropping their biggest fan.

[@aaaaaa-ts3rw]

I'm 1000% stealing the "added a minor 10th and muted the root", that is genius

[@butterflystampede1945]

Thanx for hope

[@krzy6886]

The best thing about this is that Charles is apparently Red Sox fan according to the hat in the background.

[@timrepp7870]

lol love the music technical explanation at the end

[@samtran7996]

That's like going to a stranger with no knowledge of bass and asking them to write it. Of course not the questions also exceptionally vague. Ask ChatGPT the same question but use specific words you described at the end. "Make it sound like". etc.

[@devidasi5206]

It cannot. No soul. No mind. No emotion. Even if it sounds more professional, something essential is lost...the important thing, the soul, the life-force is not there. You are great CB!

[@Halfarmed]

Damn, that music theory part was the most beautiful part of this short

[@JoeMama-tm7gi]

That bass solo was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard

[@george_2172]

That’s awesome!!

[@mihali9655]

I love how the first thing you got was Disappear by INXS 😅

[@CMAK_Midi_Maniac]

Bro thought he was hikaru at the end there.

[@codyanderson7409]

I would ask ChatGPT to compose based on your favorite bases. Great Video😎

[@wraith444]

Yup, those were definitely words that I recognized. Maybe just not in that particular order.

[@nerissaroberts]

Musicians will never be replaced!

[@jfields343]

Love the sarcasm here!

[@slicehyperfunk]

I love: "*Bass starts playing in a funky groove*"

[@Mason-is4mr]

I mean if you give it more specific instructions, like how you did at the very end explaining what you did, it works. Try, "write me a funky slap bass solo with hammer ons and pull offs, slides and octave changes" Saying "write me a solo" Is like saying "write me a word" to chatgpt, you gotta be a little specific and it works pretty well, at least for a starting point

[@winmod70]

When you explained what you did, I simply titled my head like a dog and did the sideways eyes :)

[@gokulhemanthkumar4556]

Reasonable modifications, which are easy enough. ChatGPT is awesome, composing such a masterpiece, damn!

[@CalifornianCuttlefish]

As a drummer: I don't think ChatGPT can replace human drummers, yes Drum Machines exist, but those are programmed BY people, they are not AI programs.

[@harrimat100]

Aw man, that *G-G-G-G-G-G-G* sounded like it was building up to some epic DOOM metal right there.

[@era82]

ChatGPT: Noted. Will apply recommendations on the next patch.

[@tonyli7752]

If chatgpt can make the basics today, it can create advance tomorrow-.

[@喵喵君-l2r]

I hope one day he can make more videos explaining what music math he’s doing in his brain

[@jormalonnberg1578]

kind of really funny thing about BASS playing in todays music, in any genre😎

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

But have you listened to the 10 hours of procedurally generated djent? Because that's some crazy shist.

[@randalthor2859]

Eventually the AI will be better at this. They already write news articles. You think vibrations are outside the scope? It just wasn't as important on the first run.

[@JohnJTraston]

just wait for it

[@caleblopez5056]

Now that iv been playing the bass for almost 2 years 😂it’s crazy that I actually understand what he’s saying when he puts the mathematics problems on screen😂

[@kfirdamon5291]

you got that right

[@borisos9832]

Great ending!

[@princefries8107]

I thought he said fucky on low volume💀

[@nikkmorse]

I thought that's what you did 🤣 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼

[@CaptainShanko]

surely you could tell it to add more complexity and it would generate a better result. I've found getting chatgpt to work best requires a full conversation sometimes

[@andrewmontague9682]

You're teaching it now.

[@CrabulousYT]

The first solo I believe is the same notes as the SCP:CB title theme, it's probably where it got it from, somehow

[@ajking42]

The first one was literally meet me at our spot by willow smith

[@bigboiinanut9967]

Dude that solo at the end was the most funky think I have heard, that was good stuff.

[@davidmcleod1760]

As soon as you said tenth my brain was like wait, what? 😂

[@egghaverr]

I need more

[@tsarbomba2239]

music can't be replaced by machine. There's genres of music for computer made sounds and whatnot. Plus, you still had to PLAY the music anyway

[@yoshimi_died]

The beginning of the last one sounded like Back in the USSR by the Beatles and i was like half expecting it for some reason lol

[@michaelhartmayer1894]

ChatGPT relies heavily on prompting and priming. It's not awesome enough yet to intuit exactly what you mean. But with some help, you'll get a much more interesting result. Give something like this a try: Compose a funky Bass solo. Make it interesting and advanced. Incorporate riffs, slaps, slides, etc. Use text to notate it. - I got some pretty interesting results. :D

[@andrewbrowne5557]

Charles…you replace real musicians every day! Bravo young man!

[@miriamlandau1207]

I totally relate to the way you changed it at the end! 😊 Right...Sure I do. Well, I would if I was a clone of you in an alternate dimension! 😉😀 Don't give AI too much credit. It's just pulling from a huge database!