AI Song Contest: The Eurovision for machine composers

Amid flamboyant performances, flashy costumes and pyrotechnics, the Eurovision Song Contest is probably one of the weirdest, most peculiar shows ever to grace our screens. It's the kind of event that an alien species or an emotionless android would have a hard time understanding, were they watching Europe tune into the annual celebration of kitsch, patriotism and unity. But could machines understand - and reproduce - such a uniquely human experience? The answer could be found at the AI Song Contest, a Eurovision-inspired music competition where all the songs are written by artificial intelligence. Since its creation in 2020, the song contest has been hosted every year by the Belgian city of Liège, where teams of data scientists, programmers, and musicians from all over the world participate with the compositions they have created with the help of AI.