AI piano plays Bach just like legendary pianist Glenn Gould

Yamaha's self-playing piano has been intricately designed to mimic the celebrated 20th-century Canadian pianist and Bach interpreter down to the finest musical detail. Yamaha has invented a piano that not only plays itself, but also mimics one of the best pianists and Bach interpreters of the 20th century – Glenn Gould. The piano was born of Yamaha's Dear Glenn project, which uses machine learning to teach the artificial intelligence that drives the instrument's self-playing capability the interpretative idiosyncrasies and stylistic nuances of Gould's playing. In a video released by Yamaha, the'Glenn Gould as AI' piano performs Bach's Goldberg Variations in a concert setting – offering audiences, it is hoped, as close a version of the late Gould's performances as they can ever hope to see live. The self-playing aspect of the piano was made possible by the same technology used for Yamaha's existing Disklavier instrument.