Google creates music from scratch with artificial intelligence

ByCade Roster

Google's Deep Learning Research Project "Google Brain"Announced that it will start a new attempt to generate music, art, video, etc. by artificial intelligence. A music and technology festival Moogfest also has a demonstration video that artificial intelligence uses a soft synthesizer to generate "original songs" that do not duplicate existing music.

Google (GOOG) is launching a new research project to see if you can truly creative - Quartz
http://qz.com/689887/google-is-launching-a-new-research-project-to-see-if-computers-can-be-truly-creative/


Google Brain researcher Douglas Ek talked about a new research group "Magenta" in Moogfest in Durham, North Carolina. The purpose of Magenta is to aim for the generation of completely original music, paintings and images by the system of artificial intelligence, and training of artificial intelligence is a machine learning engine published by Google from 2015 "TensorFlowIt is said that it is used.

Creating a completely new art work with artificial intelligence is not an easy task, but has the problem of "copying the styles of existing artists and musicians" as a result of learning. Magenta plans to start officially starting in June 2016, but Mr. Eck admits "It will be a very long story." First of all, a program to import music data in the MIDI file format is expected to be used in TensorFlow, and this program will be released as an open source on GitHub on June 1, and updates are scheduled to be added on a regular basis.

Although it is still before the official start, there is a demonstration demonstrating what kind of music artificial intelligence can produce at this stage.

Google AI origination music on a digital synth at Moogfest - YouTube


The music played in the demonstration has not reached a level that can impress the audience yet, and Mr. Eck admits that "for the time being, it is difficult for artificial intelligence to exceed humans in the field of art for the time being" . On the other hand, I am aiming to make it possible to periodically generate original songs that will ultimately lead to "Music Triha". Google is an artificial intelligence that outputs a nightmarish image "DeepDreamMr. Eck said, "Instead of generating crazy photos, I wanted to see if artificial intelligence given sufficient training data could create exciting music for humans "I am talking.


Although it is considered that it takes a long time for Google's artificial intelligence to generate top class songs on hit charts, Magenta will also work on generating images and videos next to music. Quartz took up Magenta says that a future such as 'generate and reproduce music that artificial intelligence can relax when detecting that users are feeling stress from heart sounds with wearable devices etc.' I expect it.