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Turns out artificial intelligence can write a decent Beatles rip-off

Jazz too.

This is how we imagine the songwriting process.
This is how we imagine the songwriting process.
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Look, I’m never gonna be mistaken for anybody’s musical taste-maker, but this isn’t so bad, right?

Kinda cliche, but still not bad for a computer. It’s the first pop release composed by artificial intelligence computers at the Sony Research Lab. Sony’s computers have been able to do Jazz for a while, Quartz notes, and the Lab posted a second tune in a dreamy Jazz style.

Hopefully they don’t teach these computers to host a public radio show next.

 

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Turns out artificial intelligence can write a decent Beatles rip-off