Baidu AI Composer creates music inspired by art

Baidu, the Chinese internet giant, has created a new AI program to explore the connection between art and music. The Baidu AI Composer creates original music inspired by different pieces of art, evoking the mood of each picture in a musical representation. According to the promotional video released by Baidu, the Baidu AI Composer uses image recognition, connected to the'world's largest neural network', to identify the subject, mood, and even cultural signifiers of a piece of art. These are filtered through a matrix of hundreds of billions of samples and AI training features, using trillions of parameters, to create a complete and original piece of music inspired by the specific piece of art observed. The AI program first identifies elements of the picture – are people represented, or is the focus on nature, or objects, or is it an abstract piece?