This robot uses deep learning to write and play its own music

Artificial intelligence has proved itself incredibly capable of analysing images, now its getting rhythm in the form of a four-armed, marimba-playing robot. The robot, named Shimon, was given a vast amount of musical data: more than 5,000 complete songs, two million motifs, riffs and short passages of music by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology. It was then asked to compose and perform its own music. It's been in development for some years, but this is the first time it has composed its own music. Once it had been fed the data it was able to use deep learning techniques to create two 30 second pieces of original music.