Facebook's new choreography AI is a dancing queen

Everybody dances, every culture throughout history has danced. But our days of monopolizing the move busting market could soon be coming to an end, as Facebook AI has become the latest team to teach an AI to bop along to the beat. "In this work, we focus on designing interesting choreographies by combining the best of what humans are naturally good at – heuristics of'good' dance that an audience might find appealing – and what machines are good at – optimizing well-defined objective functions," the team wrote in a study published Tuesday. This isn't the first time we've tried to teach AIs to dance. In 2016, Swedish Choreographer Louise Crnkovic-Friis and her husband, Peltarion CEO Luka Crnkovic-Friis, trained a recurrent neural network, dubbed Chor-rnn, on 48 hours of Louise's movements.