Translating instruments, styles, genres at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research

Is Facebook pumping up the volume on what AI can mean to the future of music? You can decide after having a look at what Facebook AI Research scientists have been up to. A number of sites including The Next Web have reported that they unveiled a neural network capable of translating music from one style, genre, and set of instruments to another. You can check out their paper, "A Universal Music Translation Network" by authors Noam Mor, Lior Wolf, Adam Polyak, Yaniv Taigman, Facebook AI Research. The paper is on arXiv.