Newslink: This Artificially Intelligent Robot Composes and Performs Its Own Music
Shimon—a four-armed marimba playing robot—has been around for years, but its developers at Georgia Tech have recently taken this futuristic musical machine to the next level. Using deep learning, the robot can now study large datasets from well-known musicians, and then produce and perform its own original compositions.
http://gizmodo.com/this-artificially-intelligent-robot-composes-and-perfor-1796093082
I've been reading more recently about AI using machine learning to compose music, create recipes, and write stories. I wonder if completing those particular tasks is the difficult part, though. We, as humans, don't enjoy every single piece of art we are exposed to, and it's easy and natural for people to start categorizing compositions as high or low quality. Can AI produce real human quality? That's the burning question in my mind.
Unless robots eventually outnumber us enough that our opinions just don't matter anymore.