Google is working on a project that will test the artistic ability of AI

Google is working on a new project to determine if artificial intelligence can ever be truly creative. The project, called Magenta, was unveiled this weekend at Moogest in Durham, North Carolina, Quartz reports. During a presentation at Moogfest, Google Brain researcher Douglas Eck said the goal of the new group is to determine if AI is capable of creating original music and visual art somewhat independently of humans. The Magenta team will use Google's open-source machine learning software TensorFlow, and try to "train" AI to make art. They'll create tools (and make them available to the public), like one that helps researchers import data from MIDI files into TensorFlow, Quartz reports.