Artificial Intelligence Could Compose The Music Of The Future

Both Google and Sony have projects underway to advance how computers write music. The inherent issue with computers writing music, however, is trying to figure out what the math is for inspiration. Because creativity can't really be quantified, it's difficult to develop an algorithm for it. Douglas Eck of Magenta, an offshoot of a Google Brain artificial intelligence project, says that many of the issues in figuring out how to enable computers to write music are human, rather than machine-based, and revolve around discovering the right questions to ask. Since writing music is not linear, creating a way for machines to write music cannot be linear either.