AIVA: The Artificial Intelligence Composer - DZone AI

The keynote for last years Nvidia GTC conference made headlines around the world for its video featuring of how omnipresent artificial intelligence might be in the future. Playing behind the video was a soundtrack also composed by an AI, AIVA, a small company from Luxembourg. The team behind AIVA are from a classical music background and trained it on music from composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach to give it an understanding of musical theory, and the patterns behind it. AIVA is purely a composer, providing the music to play, but not actively performing it. So far, this has meant that international orchestras have played its pieces as well as other computer software, such as music for a computer game.