Google ’s artificial intelligence hasalready taken on the form of a human nerd , but now it ’s fourth dimension for its next bit . Can AI be an artist ?

Douglas Eck , a researcher lick on Google Brain , recently revealedthat the team will soon launch a new project called Magenta . Though it took some inspiration fromDeepDream , another Google Brain system thatyielded trippy - as - hell on earth images(amongst other thing ) , Magenta has one fundamental difference : It will essay to figure out if computers can really make art , instead of reproducing or distorting it .

Magenta is set to set up in a more prescribed capability in early June , but Eckprovided some early on insightsduring a recent give-and-take at Moogfest , a medicine , fine art and technology festival . The new technology will useTensorFlow , Google ’s assailable source machine determine imagination — and like TensorFlow , Magenta ’s tools will be available to the sleep of us .

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Quartzreportsthat Magenta ’s first project is a program “ that will help oneself research worker spell music datum from MIDI music files into TensorFlow , which will allow their systems to get educate on melodic knowledge . ” After medicine , Magentawill move onto examination whether their computers can make range and TV . )

If all this sounds ambitious , it is — Eck said machine learning is still “ very far from long narration arc . ” But it ’s a gripping effort . Check out this presentment by one of Eck ’s team extremity during Moogfest , in which a data processor listen to a series of melodic notes and spits back its own version :

I ca n’t hold back for the day Google ’s data processor start cutting off physical structure component part and kick that their visual sense is being demolish by the world ’s vicious , capitalistic impulses !

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

[ Quartz ]

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