Google Unveils the First Iteration of Its AI Musician - DZone IoT

Late last year, I wrote about an interesting project from the US Defense Department to create a robotic jazz player. They developed a machine that is capable of performing a trumpet solo after picking up cues from fellow (human) musicians. "The goal of our research is to build a computer system and then hook it up to robots that can play instruments, and can play with human musicians in ways that we recognize as improvisational and adaptive," the researchers said. At the heart of this kind of project is a big data fueled pattern match, whereby machines learn what to do next by studying huge numbers of previous examples from human musicians. A similar project has been undertaken by researchers at Google.