When Robots Write A Song About Tom
1,793 views · Published 16 December 2016 · 1:07 · Indexed 10 November 2026
Channel: Q with Tom Power · 2016 · Entertainment
Three computer scientists from University of Toronto have been working on an Artificial Intelligence project called “Neural Karaoke." A computer essentially looks at a photograph then writes and performs a song about it. After being fed a collection of captioned photographs, 100 hours of online music and 50 hours of song lyrics, the program selects from its 3000+ word vocabulary to somewhat poetically describe the photo it is "looking at". It then adds a vocal melody, keyboard and drums and presto! We contacted Raquel Urtasun, Sanja Fidler and Hang Chu at U of T to see what their Neural Karaoke program would come up with after looking at this festive photo of Tom.
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