Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Oh come all ye...what now? This A.I. composed Christmas carol is seriously wrong!

Love them or hate them, Christmas carols are an integral part of the holiday season. From Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to The Little Drummer Boy we all know the usual Christmas classics.

But here’s a Christmas carol that you’ve never heard before…and you may never want to hear again!

A madcap bunch of researchers in Toronto have decided to dedicate themselves to furthering the possibilities of artificial intelligence (A.I.), by teaching a computer how to compose a Christmas carol. They played 100 hours of Christmas carols to the computer alongside showing it a bunch of Christmassy photos in order to ‘teach it’ all about Christmas songs. The result is…well, just plain weird.

Some example lyrics:

“I swear it’s Christmas Eve. I hope that is what you say…A Christmas tree. There are lots and lots and lots of flowers.”

Oh come all ye…what now???

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