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Re: child's play
Aren't score following programs just pattern recognition systems, with the
score being essentially a database of patterns. The main difference would
be the transposition, but if it searched all transpositions of the
pattern, I would imagine that it would be able to follow along. A better
question (or perhaps more compelling?) would be : " if a person can't
really whistle, but instead sort of 'shapes/filters' white noise with his
mouth, teeth and tongue, and a child could recognize the melody, could the
computer easily see beyond the noise to the pitch contour and subsequently
to the melody itself?"
chris
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Robert Zatorre wrote:
> Dear List
> Not to change the topic from all the exchanges about oscillating networks
> and all, but here's a lighter question (perhaps), especially for you
> modelling/AI types. Picture the following scenario: Junior sits in front of
> the TV watching Sesame Street. A few days later, Daddy hums the Sesame St.
> tune, and junior smilingly says "dat Big Bird song!" and proceeds to sing
> along. Notwithstanding the fact that Dad is singing in a different key, much
> faster, and with a voice timbre instead of instrumental, Junior has no trouble
> recognizing and generating the tune. Now, this seems to me to indicate that
> quite a sophisticated bit of pattern-recognition is going on in Junior's
> brain, with no explicit instruction either.
> My question: am I correct in assuming that, in fact, this skill is at
> present well beyond the abilities of any computer algorithm? Are there actual
> computational systems out there that can accomplish what Junior does so
> effortlessly? Any impressions you all may have about this would be much
> appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
>
> Robert Zatorre
>