A powerful AI algorithm can dream up music that echoes Bach or the Beatles, but it isn’t real creativity, writes Will Knight.
The algorithm: It’s called MuseNet, and was developed by researchers at nonprofit group OpenAI. They trained a very large neural network on thousands of pieces of MIDI music. You can then give the network a few notes, and have it conjure up something new. You can listen to some of its output here.
The results: It shows how effectively this sort of model can capture and reproduce patterns that reflect a piece of music’s character. It also raises some fascinating connections between artists. Who’d have thought that Richard Wagner and Britney Spears shared so much musical taste?
But: Like any AI system that generates music, art, or text, it isn’t being creative in the same way as a human. It’s just learning patterns, then regurgitating a variation of them. Read the full story here.
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