AI musician composes its own songs in different genres

Now artificial intelligence is set to conquer the world of music. Swiss researchers say they have developed a computer algorithm that can generate new tunes in various musical genres after listening to more than 2,000 songs. And while it isn't quite at the level of Justin Bieber or Adele, future versions of the system may be fine-tuned to create songs that rival those by today's musicians. The deep artificial composer, or DAC, produces original melodies that are'quite agreeable to listen to', according to its developers at EPFL research university in Lausanne, Switzerland The DAC system is trained to'listen' to existing tunes to learn what works. It then teaches itself to predict the pitch and duration of every note following another.