<p><b> by Ruby Nitzberg</b></p><p>Turn up the volume!<p>You’re listening to the smooth sounds of Shimon, the four-armed marimba playing robot that uses artificial intelligence to improvise its own jams.</p><p>Shimon can analyze music in real-time and improvise alongside humans as well as play its own compositions. The secret is a dataset of 5,000 songs used to generate original toons with its deep learning algorithms.</p><p>Sometimes the music sounds a little abstract since the internal systems have a harder time conceiving long-term structure at this point, but musicians be ware: robot rock is going to dominate the charts one day!</p><p> </p></p><br /> <p>The post This Robot Composes Its Own Marimba Music</a> appeared first on Vocativ</a>.</p>
