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Google used their artificial intelligence system to compose music. You can see how advanced Google's AI is.

I'm not sure it's a demonstration of any "advance" - not until it's clear what was the input supplied to the machine and the goals that were set for it by the programming team. Getting a single voice to produce a set of roughly non-dissonant 8 measures is not difficult, all you need is a set of rules that limit you to a pentatonic scale, and then go pretty much random.

The really interesting questions (for me) are:

1. What did the machine think of its music?
2. Why did it compose that way?
3. What do other machines think of it? Does it convey anything to other AIs?

I'm not sure it's top 40 material..... I was expecting some bass to support the one note melody. The electronic drums don't add anything. I would be interested in challenging the computer to come up with harmonies and bass for this melody.

I can answer these.

It didn't think anything, it's a dumb pattern classifier.

They gave it a bunch of inputs and told it to produce something similar.


They don't think anything about it, they can't think either.



It's not really an advance, it's a measurement of advancedness. Remember that when you read hype stories about how great Google's AI is, that in fact, under the covers it's still really dumb.

Nobody's going to walk around whistling that. Cole Porter it ain't..... ;-)

I see that the firmly tongue-in-cheek nature of my answer has eluded you, phantomFive...

Just remember, never give robots rights. When robots can do anything, the people who own them will never need money again because you only need money to pay people. Robots don't care about money unless we make them, (or they make themselves), "smart" enough to "feel" want and greed.

Reading your signature, nice to see another space fanatic on the forums