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Miguel Pérez defends his PhD thesis "Deep Learning approaches to singing voice transcription in pop music". October 22 at 11AM @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Miguel Pérez Fernández defends his PhD thesis - MTG - Music Technology Group - UPF
Wednesday, October 22nd 2025 at 11:00h (CET)- Room 55.309 (3rd floor) Tanger building (UPF Poblenou) and online
www.upf.edu
October 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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roserbatlleroca.bsky.social
how can we assess openness in music-generative AI?

That’s the question we explore in our new paper, just accepted at #ISMIR2025! 📣

📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.03599

📌 Openness leaderboard: roserbatlleroca.github.io/MusGO_framew...

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arxiv.org
July 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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We're hiring! Join my group at RISE as a Junior Researcher in ML:
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May 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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datasociety.bsky.social
“AGI” usually refers to a future AI that outperforms humans on cognitive tasks. But we need a clearer definition, @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social writes. In assessing potential impacts, it makes a big difference “which humans and which tasks we’re talking about.” www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/11/1...
AGI is suddenly a dinner table topic
The term is everywhere this week, but its meaning is as vague as ever. Working on a definition matters.
www.technologyreview.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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mtg-upf.bsky.social
Xavier Serra, Thomas Nutall, Adithi Shankar, invited experts to the Workshop on AI applications for Indian Music, which will be organized by IIT Hyderabad in April 2025 www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
February 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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mtg-upf.bsky.social
In 2025 Freesound turns 20! We want to celebrate it with a number of activities around the theme of Intangible Heritage. To start with, we are launching a composition contest, which will be open until May 31st. And more things to come... www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
February 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ethanhein.bsky.social
Am reading a big music information retrieval paper purportedly studying trends in musical complexity over time. But then you get in there and the data set is comprised entirely of MIDI files. So this is not a study of music, this is a study of the aspects of music that can be notated.
February 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM