{"id":70431,"date":"2017-06-18T04:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T11:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/this-artificially-intelligent-robot-composes-and-performs-its-own-music"},"modified":"2017-06-18T04:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T11:02:30","slug":"this-artificially-intelligent-robot-composes-and-performs-its-own-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/this-artificially-intelligent-robot-composes-and-performs-its-own-music","title":{"rendered":"This Artificially Intelligent Robot Composes and Performs 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\/9qrUI-oPQlw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shimon\u2014a four-armed marimba playing robot\u2014has been around for years, but its developers at Georgia Tech have recently taken this futuristic musical machine to the next level. Using deep learning, the robot can now study large datasets from well-known musicians, and then produce and perform its own original compositions.<\/p>\n<p>Shimon was originally developed by Gil Weinberg, director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Music Technology. Under its original programming, <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.gatech.edu\/content\/cute-musician-robots-georgia-techs-latest-triple-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the robot was capable of improvising music<\/a> as it played alongside human performers, using an \u201cinterestingness\u201d algorithm to make sure it wasn\u2019t just copying its bandmates. But now, thanks to the efforts of Ph.D. student Mason Bretan, Shimon has become an accomplished composer, capable of autonomously generating the melodic and harmonic structure of a song. And you know what? Shimon\u2019s songs are actually quite good!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-artificially-intelligent-robot-composes-and-perfor-1796093082\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-artificially-intelligent-robot-compo...1796093082<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shimon\u2014a four-armed marimba playing robot\u2014has been around for years, but its developers at Georgia Tech have recently taken this futuristic musical machine to the next level. Using deep learning, the robot can now study large datasets from well-known musicians, and then produce and perform its own original compositions. Shimon was originally developed by Gil Weinberg, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70431","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\/70431","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}