So we know that robots can already write articles, we’ve seen them critique art, and we’ve also seen them write episodes for TV, and we’ve also heard about robots acting in movies, so basically it sounds like almost no job is safe from robots, and now it looks like that bleak future is starting to prove itself.
Researchers at Sony have recently uploaded a song onto YouTube in which it was revealed that the song was written by their AI. “Scientists at SONY CSL Research Laboratory have created the first-ever entire songs composed by Artificial Intelligence: ‘Daddy’s Car’ and ‘Mister Shadow’. The researchers have developed FlowMachines, a system that learns music styles from a huge database of songs. Exploiting unique combinations of style transfer, optimization and interaction techniques, FlowMachines composes novel songs in many styles.”
Before you start to panic, it should be noted that while the AI did compose the song, human assistance was still required. French composer Benoît Carré arranged and produced the songs in the style of The Beatles, and also wrote the lyrics, so like we said, while it might have come up with the tune, humans are still needed to help polish it into a proper song.
It is possible that one day humans might not even be needed and record labels will just use AI to churn out songs that are almost guaranteed hits, but hopefully that future is still a long way from happening. In the meantime if you are curious as to how capable AI is at writing songs, check out “Daddy’s Car” in the video above.
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