Robot Uses Deep Learning and Big Data to Write and Play its Own Music

Shimon, a four-armed, marimba playing robot, is writing and playing its own music using deep learning. This is the first of its two songs. A marimba-playing robot with four arms and eight sticks is writing and playing its own compositions in a lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The pieces are generated using artificial intelligence and deep learning. Researchers fed the robot nearly 5,000 complete songs -- from Beethoven to the Beatles to Lady Gaga to Miles Davis -- and more than 2 million motifs, riffs and licks of music.