Very interesting research that is 100% oversold in the popular media. Look at the original paper and listen to the reconstructed audio samples (at the end):
Can you identify which song has been reconstructed? I could not.
The basis for song "reconstruction" claims is the song-excerpt identification analysis (e.g. Fig 4) that divides the song into 38 5-second clips and then ranks how closely each identified excerpt is to the expected excerpt--effectively, how well does the reconstruction match 38 excerpts to 38 expected excerpts. This is not reconstructing the song, just matching puzzle parts.
A nice piece of neural science, completely misrepresented in the media.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Can you identify which song has been reconstructed? I could not.
The basis for song "reconstruction" claims is the song-excerpt identification analysis (e.g. Fig 4) that divides the song into 38 5-second clips and then ranks how closely each identified excerpt is to the expected excerpt--effectively, how well does the reconstruction match 38 excerpts to 38 expected excerpts. This is not reconstructing the song, just matching puzzle parts.
A nice piece of neural science, completely misrepresented in the media.