Facebook made an AI that convincingly turns one style of music into another

Facebook AI Research (FAIR) scientists yesterday unveiled a neural network capable of translating music from one style, genre, and set of instruments to another. Soon, you won't have to blow your own horn; you can just whistle to an AI and it'll turn your song into the symphony or dance hit of your dreams. The AI takes one input, such as a symphony orchestra playing Bach, and translates it into something else, like the same song played on a piano in the style of Beethoven, for example. FAIR becomes the first AI research team to create an unsupervised learning method for recreating high-fidelity music with a neural network. Our results present abilities that are, as far as we know, unheard of. Asked to convert one musical instrument to another, our network is on par or slightly worse than professional musicians.