How to run an AI powered musical challenge: "AWS DeepComposer Got Talent"

To help you fast track your company's adoption of machine learning (ML), AWS offers educational solutions for developers to get hands-on experience. We like to think of these programs as a fun way for developers to build their skills using ML technologies in real world scenarios. In this post, we walk you through how to prepare for and run an AI music competition using AWS DeepComposer. Through AWS DeepComposer, you can experience Generative AI in action and learn how to harness the latest in ML and AI. We provide an end-to-end kit that contains tools, techniques, processes, and best practices to run the event. Designed specifically to educate developers on generative AI, AWS DeepComposer includes tutorials, sample code, and training data in an immersive platform that can be used to build ML models with music as the medium of instruction. Developers, regardless of their background in ML or music, can get started with applying AI techniques including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Autoregressive Convolutional Neural Networks (AR-CNN) and Transformers to generate new musical notes and accompaniments.