OPEN AI JUKEBOX
Could a non-human entertainer enchant and enthral a human audience? The Microsoft-backed Open AI project is putting the theory to the test by training a neural network on a database of 1.2 million songs, giving it some lyrics (co-written by AI and some humans) and seeing what it comes up with across various genres from easy listening to hip-hop. The results, unsurprisingly, sound like an impersonation of music rather than music itself. You’ve got to pat AI on the head for having a go, but would you choose to listen to it? Nope.
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