Artificial intelligence (AI) can do many different things.From controlling the lights in our homes to helping us order pizzas,it seems there aren't many more uses for AI than we already have.However
Thanks to a team of Swiss scientists,AI may soon be able to come up with music especially for us.Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have created a computer algorithm (算法)(DAC),which can create original music all by itself.
Florian Colombo,an EPFL scientist who helped create the DAC,said that AI could produce complete melodies (旋律)
At present,the DAC is only able to produce several pieces of traditional Irish folk music,but it's hoped that it will be able to create songs based on any type of music in the end.
To "teach" the DAC,the scientists trained it to "listen" to over 2,000 different folk songs.Based on this input (输入),from getting the pitch (高音) and timing right
This process is still in its early stages,with the DAC still not producing perfect results,but Colombo told AFP that the AI's music is still "quite pleasant to listen to."
While the idea sounds very hopeful,we shouldn't expect the DAC to replace real﹣life composers any time soon.According to Colombo,the system was designed to produce only simple melodies.So far
Colombo said that his purpose in creating the DAC was to help people create their own music,not to have it made for them.His exciting new ideas came from Austrian composer Wolfgang Mozart.It's said that he used to throw dice (掷骰子) to help him pick which notes to use when making new music.
"A good composer with creative ideas will never be replaced by an algorithm." Colombo told AFP.