Watch: Robot composer performs its own work - Futurity

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A four-armed, marimba-playing robot can now write and play its own compositions with aid from 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. Aside from giving the machine a seed, or the first four measures to use as a starting point, no humans are involved in either the composition or the performance of the music. The first two compositions are roughly 30 seconds in length.