A Christmas Song Written By A Computer
Artificial Intelligence is advancing with rapid steps. After Google Deep Dream brain neural simulation, researchers in Toronto created a new technology called “neural karaoke”. It teaches computers to write music after looking at pictures and listening to other music.
Neural Story Singing Christmas from Hang Chu on Vimeo.
This is a Christmas song composed entirely by a computer. After listening for 100 hours of Christmas music it produced a simple melody with chords and a drum section. Then it was shown pictures, from which he wrote the lyrics based on the words associated with those images.
“You can imagine having an AI channel on Pandora or Spotify that generates music, or takes people’s pictures and sings about them.”
I don't think John Denver and the Muppets are in danger of being shelved anytime soon...