{"id":105916,"date":"2020-04-23T13:43:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/robot-uses-deep-learning-and-big-data-to-write-and-play-its-own-music"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:43:13","slug":"robot-uses-deep-learning-and-big-data-to-write-and-play-its-own-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/robot-uses-deep-learning-and-big-data-to-write-and-play-its-own-music","title":{"rendered":"Robot Uses Deep Learning and Big Data to Write and Play Its Own Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j82nYLOnKtM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A marimba-playing robot with four arms and eight sticks is writing and playing its own compositions in a lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The pieces are generated using artificial intelligence and deep learning.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers fed the robot nearly 5,000 complete songs \u2014 from Beethoven to the Beatles to Lady Gaga to Miles Davis \u2014 and more than 2 million motifs, riffs and licks of music. Aside from giving the machine a seed, or the first four measures to use as a starting point, no humans are involved in either the composition or the performance of the music.<\/p>\n<p>The first two compositions are roughly 30 seconds in length. The robot, named Shimon, can be seen and heard playing them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j82nYLOnKtM\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6MSk5PP9KUA\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A marimba-playing robot with four arms and eight sticks is writing and playing its own compositions in a lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The pieces are generated using artificial intelligence and deep learning. Researchers fed the robot nearly 5,000 complete songs \u2014 from Beethoven to the Beatles to Lady Gaga to Miles Davis [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}