It's no Christmas No 1, but AI-generated song brings festive cheer to researchers
by Ian Sample Science editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#23BJH)
'Neural karaoke' program can take any digital photo and transform it into a computer-generated singalong
It will not, if there is any certainty left in the world, top the charts this Christmas. But what it lacks in party hit potential, it more than makes up for with its unique, if vaguely unsettling, brand of festive cheer.
To be fair, humans had very little hand in penning the song. Instead, scientists fed a Christmassy photograph into a computer and let it do its thing. A program analysed the image, whipped up some relevant lyrics, and then sang them to music it had composed along the way.