Can AI write music as well as a human composer?
2 min readApr 15, 2018
The AI called “Aiva” (artificial intelligence virtual artist) composes classical music — an emotional art which is usually considered to be a uniquely human quality. Aiva’s musical pieces are used as soundtracks for film directors, advertising agencies, and even game studios.
- Aiva was founded in Luxembourg by Pierre Barreau, Denis Shtefan, Arnaud Decker, and Vincent Barreau.
- Aiva is an AI composer that creates musical pieces executed by humans.
- This brings up the question: Will AI-composed music ever be indistinguishable from the work of human musicians?
“It’s easy for AI to come up with something novel just randomly. But it’s very hard to come up with something that is novel and unexpected and useful.” — John Smith, Manager of Multimedia and Vision at IBM Research
Aiva is not the only organization that is leveraging AI for creativity:
- Google deepdream is also working on this with the magenta project.
- IBM‘s quest for AI creativity.
- Forcit’s research on artificial neural network techniques.
Listen and enjoy Aiva’s compositions:
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