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Is Shazam considered AI? I thought fingerprinting songs was a relatively straight-forward algo that didn’t require any training.


Sort of. They were early to use vector databases for semantic search. Now we use embeddings from a neural net as features for semantic search, I think they used lots of labels and analyzed features like beats per minute, chord progression, etc. happy to be corrected of course.




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