Listen to this AI-composed song in the style of The Beatles

Sony's Computer Science Laboratory in Paris has been working on the research and development of pioneering music technologies since 1997, and a blog post from one of the lab's teams this week unveiled an advancement that could reverberate throughout the music world. The team's Flow Machines project successfully created two entire pop songs composed by artificial intelligence, after learning musical styles from a massive database. After "exploiting unique combinations of style transfer, optimization and interaction techniques, it can compose in any style," the post reads. The project's success aligns with the team's goals, which, according to the lab's site, has the aim to "abstract'style' from concrete corpora (text, music, etc.), and turn it into a malleable substance that acts as a texture." Though the team has been successful in the past with constraint-based spatialization -- intelligent music scheduling using metadata and award-winning systems (MusicSpace, PathBuilder, Virtuoso, etc.) -- the work it showed off this week might take home the prize for being one of the most impressive.