It looks like robots are one step closer to taking over the world. It was made using a system called FlowMachines developed by the team at Sony CSL Research Laboratory, and was trained on a huge database of 13,000 songs. If that sounds weird to you, you’re not wrong. The song has been titled “Daddy’s auto”, and it sounds a lot like a track made by the legendary Beatles.
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In order to create the track, the system drew upon an enormous database of songs varying in styles, picking and pulling minuscule elements from a range of tracks. The most represented genres are jazz and pop, but all types of music are represented.
The second track, “Mr”. The melody and harmony was composed by AI and then a human musician, French composer Benoît Carré, produced, mixed and wrote lyrics for the track. They were processed by Flow Machines. Coherency apparently wasn’t high on Carré’s list of lyrical priorities, but he did sneak a “good day sunshine” into the “Beatles” song, which incorporates so much sonic déjà vu that it sounds like a Muzak version of the uniformly disappointing covers from Across the Universe.
Still, despite all these issues, the software itself is pretty remarkable.
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“Daddy’s Car” may be a hacky ripoff that falls somewhere between the Beatles and Tame Impala for its mid-’60s British rock stylings, but hey, blame the software.
