IBM’s Watson has upended any romantic notions of songwriting by making it a precise formula of inspiration, emotion, musical theory and trends. The AI system’s new music algorithm, called “Beat,” helped producer Alex da Kid create his first solo EP of four songs, the first of which, Not Easy (feat. X Ambassadors, Elle King and Wiz Khalifa), dropped on Friday. To be clear, IBM’s bot didn’t write the song, but rather generated “completely new musical scores” that da Kid (who produced singles by Dr. Dre, Rhianna and others) used as inspiration for the tunes.
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