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Musicians Obsolete? Sony A.I. Creates Beatles-Inspired Song

#artificialintelligenceSep-24-2016, 07:55:09 GMT

If you're a musician, you may want to skip this story. The march of automation, thirsty for more jobs to claim, has taken the songwriter's role with a new artificial intelligence from Sony CSL research laboratory. The FlowMachines software scanned 13,000 pieces of sheet music from a variety of styles, allowing a human composer to pick a style and have the software generate both melody and harmony. Audio recordings were matched to the melodies, before the resulting song was polished up by humans. The first song, "Daddy's Car," is surprisingly good (sorry musicians).

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