AIs can be trained to do many things, and that includes playing music.
After creating the first AI rock musician and having it growl death metal non-stop on YouTube, Dadabots has another AI musician in place.
Zack Zukowski and CJ Carr, two musicians-turned-programmers created an AI that could compose something that an ordinary normal human would never be capable of accomplishing.
And that is playing plausible-sounding Jazz music, with some inhuman trill, horns and arrays of harsh sound. It streams the music for 24 hours a day, also on YouTube.
In other words, Dadabots is showing a glimpse of what sounds would sound when an algorithm deconstructs a piece of human art.
"Way out, beyond the heliosphere, an A.I. aboard NASA space probe Voyager 3 generates free jazz - broadcast via livestream 24/7 - until we lose contact," wrote the programmers on the YouTube video's description.
To be capable of creating such melodies, the AI's neural network was trained on Interstellar Space by John Coltrane. The studio album by American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane which was recorded in 1967, was modified with SampleRNN.
Using this model for unconditional audio generation based on generating one audio sample at a time, the programmers were able to generate the AI by leveraging memory-less modules to capture underlying sources of variations in the temporal sequences over very long time spans.
The AI listened to the album 16 times, over and over again, to then be capable of creating a music in its own style.
The AI field has become more creative by each coming day. And when looking at the use cases of AI in the music industry, the results can be promising.
For example, there was a research by Deezer that created an AI for detecting songs' musical mood. Then there was MIT that created an AI capable of deconstructing a song down to the instruments it use. And also 'folk-rnn' which explores the intersection between AI and creative arts.
Not to mention the AI which composed the country song 'you can't take my door'.
As for Dadatbots, its Death Metal song called 'Relentless Doppelganger' shows how machine learning technology can drive new types of music software, and make music making process a lot easier for artists.
To most people, the sound these AIs generate, may make less to no sense. But remember that AIs are still learning. The more data they feed, they should become better in time.
So here, AIs are absolutely on a spree to make this world a lot more interesting. And Dadabots' AI in playing more genres, is almost enough to show that there will be a whole new world of possibilities when AI and humans coexist.