Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Correction: I don't think I'm using ChatGPT4, I'm using
https://chat.openai.com/chat.
Ken

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 4:06 PM Kenneth Wolcott
<kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.