Robot That Can Write a Symphony: AI Device Composes Tailor-Made Music
Robot That Can Write a Symphony: AI Device Composes
Tailor-Made Music
By Jonathan Gross TECH 18:39 17.01.2017 (updated 19:57
17.01.2017)
An artificial intelligence headset that records brain
waves, links them to the individual’s moods, and then composes original music
to uplift its user’s feelings has been invented.
The device, developed by a team of Japanese scientists from
Osaka University and Tokyo City University and a research institute in Belgium,
was unveiled on January 16, Japanese newspaper Asahi reported. To design the headset the scientists recorded
the brain waves of volunteers while they listened to different music samples
ranging from J-Pop to nursery rhymes. Based on this data, they create a
personalized "emotional music model" for each individual.
The AI first studied the relations between the music and
the emotions of a particular person and then writes the ideal musical
composition.
The story reminds of the famous quotation from the movie
“I, Robot” and makes us think again in what unexpected things computers might
become better than us.
According to the research group, conventional automatic
music composition machines require the input of specific data about the
characteristics of the music that the listener wants, but this system makes
music directly in accordance with the listener’s personal sensitivity.
The AI headset is scheduled to be showcased at the 3d
Wearable Expo in Tokyo on January 18-20, the report says.
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