Google's Magenta project releases first piece of AI-composed music

Can artificial intelligence be used to create compelling human art? That's a question which Google's Magenta team, a group researchers from the Silicon Valley giant's Brain Team, looks to answer, using Google's open-source TensorFlow AI engine. So far, the signs point to yes: The team has now released the first piece of music been written via machine learning, a simple tune that was composed without any human hands. Related: Take the Millennium Falcon for a spin: New'Star Wars' vinyl features embedded holograms The first bit of music released by the Magenta team is a 90-second clip of piano, which had a drum beat added by researchers to give context to the computer's harmonic rhythm. It's an interesting amalgamation of sounds: simple, but full of complex musical ideas like repeated phrasing, form, and feeling.