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AI利用の作曲について。
Sort of
意味 [副詞的に](明確な表現を避けて) 多少, いくぶん (kind of, (よりかたく)rather, somewhat) ; [単独であいまいな答えとして]まあね, そんなとこだね
THESE DAYS, anyone with a computer can be a composer. Sort of.
www.economist.com
この文章内でのこの単語のニュアンスがいまいちわからないけど、一応調べたので残しておく。
数年後に再読したらするっと理解できるのかな。
merrily
意味 (肯定的に) 迅速に, すばやく.
Give a piece of commercial software such as Magenta, developed by Google, the first few notes of a song, and it will make something merrily tuneful out of them. Tuneful, but not sophisticated.
www.economist.com
他に「(否定的に) (起こりうる問題などについて) 何も考えずに, 気楽に.」という意味もあるから、少し否定的なニュアンスだろうな。
Whither
意味 (かたく)[疑問副詞]…はどこへ向かうのか, …の将来はどうなるのか.
To this end, Dr Widmer is running a project called “Whither music?”—a title borrowed from a lecture series given at Harvard University in 1973 by Leonard Bernstein, a celebrated 20th-century composer.
www.economist.com
これは格好いい単語だな。覚えたい!
humble
意味 [[名]の前で]ごく普通の, 質素な〈場所· 物事など〉
The team’s software takes data from these and other, humbler recordings and compares them with the score as written by the composer.
www.economist.com
「コンサート演奏ではない、普通の練習時などの録音」の意味かな。
catholic
意味 (書)[c-]〈趣味が〉広範な; 〈人が〉(趣味などが) 幅広い; 寛容な, 包容力のある; 普遍的な, 包括的な
A recent paper showed that they are good at suggesting pieces for fans of pop music with catholic appetites, but not for those who prefer a specific genre, such as heavy metal or rap.
www.economist.com
うおー…こんな意味あるのか!やっぱEconomistは難しいな!
Great art is often a product of knowing when to obey the rules and when to break them. And that is exactly what he is teaching his machines.
www.economist.com
Economistのこういう締めの文章、格好よくてほんと好き。