<p>In a first, scientists have developed an artificial intelligence robot that can create its own music inspired by the works of musicians like Beethoven and Lady Gaga.<br /><br />The robot with four arms and eight sticks writes and plays its own compositions on a marimba, using a database of well-known pop, classical and jazz artists.<br /><br />Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US fed the robot nearly 5,000 complete songs - from Beethoven to the Beatles to Lady Gaga to Miles Davis.<br /><br />They worked with the robot named 'Shimon' for seven years, enabling it to listen to music played by humans and improvise over pre-composed chord progressions.<br /><br />Shimon is now a solo composer generating the melody and harmonic structure on its own, researchers said.<br /><br />"Shimon's compositions represent how music sounds and looks when a robot uses deep neural networks to learn everything it knows about music from millions of human-made segments," said Mason Bretan, a PhD student at Georgia Tech.<br /><br />"Once Shimon learns the four measures we provide, it creates its own sequence of concepts and composes its own piece," said Bretan.<br /><br />"This is a leap in Shimon's musical quality because it's using deep learning to create a more structured and coherent composition," said Gil Weinberg, a professor at Georgia Tech.<br /><br />"We want to explore whether robots could become musically creative and generate new music that we humans could find beautiful, inspiring and strange," Weinberg said. <br /><br /></p>
<p>In a first, scientists have developed an artificial intelligence robot that can create its own music inspired by the works of musicians like Beethoven and Lady Gaga.<br /><br />The robot with four arms and eight sticks writes and plays its own compositions on a marimba, using a database of well-known pop, classical and jazz artists.<br /><br />Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US fed the robot nearly 5,000 complete songs - from Beethoven to the Beatles to Lady Gaga to Miles Davis.<br /><br />They worked with the robot named 'Shimon' for seven years, enabling it to listen to music played by humans and improvise over pre-composed chord progressions.<br /><br />Shimon is now a solo composer generating the melody and harmonic structure on its own, researchers said.<br /><br />"Shimon's compositions represent how music sounds and looks when a robot uses deep neural networks to learn everything it knows about music from millions of human-made segments," said Mason Bretan, a PhD student at Georgia Tech.<br /><br />"Once Shimon learns the four measures we provide, it creates its own sequence of concepts and composes its own piece," said Bretan.<br /><br />"This is a leap in Shimon's musical quality because it's using deep learning to create a more structured and coherent composition," said Gil Weinberg, a professor at Georgia Tech.<br /><br />"We want to explore whether robots could become musically creative and generate new music that we humans could find beautiful, inspiring and strange," Weinberg said. <br /><br /></p>