Google's Magenta project just wrote its first piece of music, and thankfully it's not great

Deep in the bowels of Google's Google Brain, the company is asking the question: can neural networks create music? Google's Magenta project has an answer: yes. Whether that music is good, however... Google may have annihilated its human competition in the ancient game of Go, but human artists don't have to worry--yet--about losing their livelihoods. Still, it appears that Magenta could at least drop a riff or two that human artists could remix. Want to hear it for yourself?