Artificial Intelligence In the Music Industry

The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is expected to be worth more than $70 billion by 2020 and will undoubtedly influence our lifestyles and the way we consume data. Put simply, AI is a field of computer science that enables computers to do things that humans would consider "intelligent". Well, companies such as Shazam have been using AI since their founding embedded in their "fingerprint" technology. Shazam holds an extensive catalogue of songs with detailed "spectrograms" that contain the various frequencies that a song emits. Once the user tags a song, the application will take that signal, cross reference it with their database and return a match.