Amazon Web Services debuted a keyboard called DeepComposer this week, claiming it's "the world's first musical keyboard powered by generative AI." It has 32 keys, costs $99, and connects to a software interface that uses machine learning and cloud computing to generate music based on what you play. It's been unclear who this is for, and many have latched on to the fact that the music it creates just sounds bad. It looks like a consumer product, and Amazon used an over-the-top presentation to hype it, which included what AWS claimed was "the first hybrid AI human pop acoustic collaboration." But actually, the keyboard is intended to be a beginning tool for developers to get into machine learning and music.

In this episode of Coffee with a Googler, we meet with Christine Robson to talk all about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and more. We look at project Magenta, and how it was used to create computer generated music. In addition to that we delve into how machine intelligence was used to award-winning effect in YouTube. And all of the technology that was used to build this is now available to you, open sourced.