Daddy's Car: a song composed with Artificial Intelligence - in the style of the Beatles
Overview
Sony CSL's Daddy's Car is a pop song composed with AI in the style of the Beatles, with lead sheets generated by software from Beatles-style training material. Humans produced, arranged and performed it.
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Cited as an early example of AI-composed music, usually with the caveat that humans did much of the production.
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Video by Sony CSL (Paris), played through YouTube.
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