Google is building AI that can create its own art and music — here's why that's important

Google is building AI that can create its own art and music — here’s why that’s important

Google introduced a new group dedicated to making artificial intelligence more creative at Moogfest, a four-day music and technology festival in Durham, North Carolina, Quartz first reported. Called Magenta, the group will use its AI system TensorFlow to see if AI can be trained to create its own art, music, and video. The ultimate goal is to see if AI could give a listener “musical chills” by generating entirely new pieces of music, Quartz reported. Google made TensorFlow open source in November so that any developer can use it. TensorFlow works by using deep learning, a process where machines learn to complete tasks all on their own, to recognize images. This is why Google Photos is so scary good at search — because it uses TensorFlow to recognize places based on popular landmarks…


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