In this video, I go over some of the state of the art advances in music generation coming out of DeepMind. Then we build our own music generation script in Python using Tensorflow and a type of neural network called a Restricted Boltzmann Machine. The challenge for this video is to generate a happy/upbeat song using the RBM Script. You guys are the reason I do this. If you enjoy my videos, I'd appreciate your support on Patreon:) https://www.patreon.com/user?u

BERLIN stands for Behavioural Event Reconstruction Linguistic Interface for Narratives. I introduced BERLIN a few blogs ago - in my "final blog." Theoretically after one's final blog, no further blogs are forthcoming. However, I am now posting bonus blogs reflecting aspects of the same closing subject. Today, I will be elaborating on BERLIN's syntax and how its searches are facilitated. As a general rule, the objective of BERLIN is to convert human-friendly narrative into computer-friendly code. It isn't unusual for computer code to be expressed in a human-like language for the purpose of executing a program. A computer program has rigid parameters. BERLIN on the other hand is designed to support "expression." Rather than the code adapting to the needs of a computer program, it is adapted to the requirements of expression. BERLIN remains shaped by a type of program of sorts.

Hi! I am back again with the transcript of a new-- episode of Capgemini's "Data and The Hunch" podcast series. I am a Principal Analyst for VINT, the Sogeti Trend Lab, and work on anything Analytics related to the Connected Service Experience. My Twitter handle is @BLO2M – B-L-O-Numeric2-M – so if you like, feel free to follow me. Today, Fenny has joined me in the studio. Hi Fen, how can I help you?

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A recurring motif put our divided-mind anti-hero Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) -- and by extension, us, his "hello, friend" buddy -- in the backseat of a car and took us for wild rides by mad men and toady tools. This was the premise of the madly meta "Mr. Robot" sitcom, when Mr. Robot (Christian Slater), Elliot's rogue alter-ego and frequent altered state, seized the wheel of his consciousness and took him on a great escape. This was the cliffhanger of last week's trippy and tricky outing, with Elliot riding shotgun in a cab with a dark passenger he thought was dead, Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallstrom). He freaked and demanded his immediate release, a hair-pulling panic that might have spoken for us, too. Such was the thrill, frustration, and meaning of season 2, a saga of identity crisis run amok in a high anxiety culture on the blink and on the brink. All of its characters became unreliable narrators of themselves, and their distortions and their dimness became threatening to everyone as they executed reckless campaigns for change. Each of them had ideas for how to make the world great again.

Sony's Computer Science Laboratory in Paris has been working on the research and development of pioneering music technologies since 1997, and a blog post from one of the lab's teams this week unveiled an advancement that could reverberate throughout the music world. The team's Flow Machines project successfully created two entire pop songs composed by artificial intelligence, after learning musical styles from a massive database. After "exploiting unique combinations of style transfer, optimization and interaction techniques, it can compose in any style," the post reads. The project's success aligns with the team's goals, which, according to the lab's site, has the aim to "abstract'style' from concrete corpora (text, music, etc.), and turn it into a malleable substance that acts as a texture." Though the team has been successful in the past with constraint-based spatialization -- intelligent music scheduling using metadata and award-winning systems (MusicSpace, PathBuilder, Virtuoso, etc.) -- the work it showed off this week might take home the prize for being one of the most impressive.

"You hear people say that it is an out-of-body experience and there's no way to prepare for it, but I seriously sat there and thought, 'Was it my name?' Like, 'Please, Rami, don't stand up if you don't think you really heard your name,'" the actor exclusively told E! News' Catt Sadler after the show. "Then I got out of my chair and walked onstage. I was like, 'This might actually be happening.' Malek added that he was "humbled" to be in the company of such "phenomenal, magnificent" actors. Mr. Robot has taken Malek by surprise on a number of occasions, beginning when he was cast in the hit television series. I was like, 'Come on, guys! They're never going to put me in the role of the young lead,'" he recalled.

We already know that artificial intelligence systems can work in law firms and beat the world champion at a game of Go. Now it turns out that AI can write some pretty good pop songs, too.

We already know that artificial intelligence systems can work in law firms and beat the world champion at a game of Go. Now it turns out that AI can write some pretty good pop songs, too. Researchers at Sony have been working on AI-generated music for years, and has previously used AI to create impressive jazz tracks. But this is the first time the Sony CSL Research Laboratory has released pop music composed by AI, and the results are impressive. The first song, "Daddy's Car," is a catchy, sunny tune reminiscent of The Beatles.

What seemed before like science fiction is now a rapidly growing and evolving technology. Artificial intelligence transforms the way the world works. Now, AI is a powerful problem-solving tool in numerous functions of society. Previously tedious steps industrial production is automated by robots that can anticipate changes in the system. In businesses, bulk amounts of fed data are easily manipulated and responses are faster and more reliable.