continuator

[kuhn-tin-yoo-ey-ter]

noun

1. a person or thing that continues.

continuator

/ kənˈtɪnjʊˌeɪtə /

noun

1. a person who continues something, esp the work of someone else

Word History and Origins

Origin of continuator¹

First recorded in 1640–50; continuate + -or ²

Example Sentences

One of the interesting ones was the jazz Continuator, which took the music that a jazz musician was playing, learned the patterns, and started to play that music for the jazz musician.

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Funnily, we become more like machines because we just repeat things, so what I think is exciting is that the jazz Continuator kind of gave the musician a little bit of a kick and stopped him behaving like a machine.

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The best musical use of AI, he says, is in partnership with human beings – something demonstrated by the Continuator, a device developed by a French AI specialist François Pachet, which can learn from a musician’s basic style and then suggest radical directions to take.

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He tours artworks such as the pixelated paintings of Gerhard Richter and an algorithmic portrait by French art collective Obvious; examines Google DeepMind’s efforts to crack mathematical theorems; listens to AI “jazz improviser” The Continuator; checks out storytelling algorithm Scheherazade-IF; and more.

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The committee concluded that in the event of Scottish independence the remainder of the UK would be the "continuator" state and so retain its current international status and treaty obligations, as well as UK institutions such as the BBC and the Bank of England.

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