Artificial intelligence can take your bad whistling and make it sound like Mozart
Facebook researchers used AI to create a universal music translator.
By Rob Verger May 24, 2018
Consider the sound of a human crudely whistling the theme music from the Indiana Jones movies. Then, imagine a computer listening to the whistled version of that song, and imitating it—but in the style of Bach, on an organ.
A small group of researchers from a division of Facebook have created an artificial intelligence system that’s capable of doing just that—listening to an audio file of a song and then mimicking it with new instrumentation. It’s a cover band with a synthetic brain. They call it a “universal music translation network,†and from a given music file, it can spit out music in six different styles.
https://www.popsci.com/universal-music-translation-artificial-intelligence
