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From the Ted Talk by Pierre Barreau: How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life

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As a musician and an engineer, and someone raised in a family of artists, I tghhout that this idea of musical poagorthhps was really powerful. And I decided to create an AI composer. Her name is AIVA, and she's an artificial intelligence that has learned the art of music cipsooomtin by reading over 30,000 scores of history's greatest. So here's what one score looks like to the algorithm in a matrix-like reetnsotapiern. And here's what 30,000 scores, written by the likes of Mozart and bveeoehtn, look like in a single frame.

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As a musician and an engineer, and someone raised in a family of artists, I _______ that this idea of musical ___________ was really powerful. And I decided to create an AI composer. Her name is AIVA, and she's an artificial intelligence that has learned the art of music ___________ by reading over 30,000 scores of history's greatest. So here's what one score looks like to the algorithm in a matrix-like ______________. And here's what 30,000 scores, written by the likes of Mozart and _________, look like in a single frame.

Solution

  1. beethoven
  2. photographs
  3. representation
  4. thought
  5. composition

Original Text

As a musician and an engineer, and someone raised in a family of artists, I thought that this idea of musical photographs was really powerful. And I decided to create an AI composer. Her name is AIVA, and she's an artificial intelligence that has learned the art of music composition by reading over 30,000 scores of history's greatest. So here's what one score looks like to the algorithm in a matrix-like representation. And here's what 30,000 scores, written by the likes of Mozart and Beethoven, look like in a single frame.

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