Gadgetory

Google eh I just created a song take a listen to a sample of the first song created in part by Google's project magenta project magenta comes with a Google brain team and yeah Google's got a brain team dedicated to deep learning and machine intelligence magenta has a couple of goals one is to build a community of researchers coders and artists the other goal is to advance machine intelligence for music and art Google released a 90-second piano tune made using project magenta the melody was created by a neural network that network was given four notes to start the drum track was added by a more complicated machine called a human being Google says it doesn't know what to expect from people using its tools the company like is itself more to a guitar maker not an artist itself as far as the song itself it's not too bad it doesn't have an amazing hook that will get stuck in your head all day it won't be compared to the greatest works of the ages but come on it's project magentas first composition I know I wouldn't want my very first creative work published by a giant company let's hope the Google brain team doesn't program the ability for magenta to have its feelings hurt that's it for this tech news update I'm is Akhtar and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash you