Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

HI Saul;

  I asked ChatGPT to write some ABC notation.  The result was...'okay'.

  I then asked for a very simple arrangement of some children's tune
and it got very confused about relative pitches.  Since the rhythm for
the piece of music I requested was so simple it didn't have a problem
generating the score.  I argued with ChatGPT about relative pitches in
Lilypond, I told it to go back and read the manuals :-)  I gave up
asking ChatGPT about generating Lilypond scores after that.

Ken Wolcott

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:44 PM Saul Tobin <saul.james.tobin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've seen some examples of other people succeeding in getting ChatGPT with 
> GPT4 to compose simple music in other text based music formats. I've had 
> limited success getting it to output Lilypond code. It is able to correctly 
> structure the code with a score block, nested contexts, and appropriately 
> named variables, and bar checks at the end of each measure. It seems to 
> struggle to create rhythms that fit within the time signature beyond 
> extremely simple cases. It also seems to struggle a lot to understand what 
> octave pitches will be in when using relative mode.
>
> It also seems to have a lot of trouble keeping track of the relationship 
> between notes entered in different simultaneous expressions. Just asking it 
> to repeat back which notes appear in each voice on each beat, GPT4 frequently 
> gives stubbornly incorrect answers about the music it generated. This makes 
> it very difficult to improve its output by giving feedback.
>
> I'm curious whether anybody else has tried playing with this. I have to 
> imagine that GPT4 has the potential to produce higher quality Lilypond 
> output, given some of the other impressive things it can do. Perhaps it needs 
> to be provided with a large volume of musical repertoire in Lilypond format.