Computers in a Jazz Ensemble? Inventing Improvisational AI

Go to any jazz club and watch the musicians. Their performances are dynamic and improvisational; they're inventing as they go along, having entire conversations through their instruments. Can we give computers the same capabilities? To answer that question, University of California San Diego Professor Shlomo Dubnov, who has appointments in the departments of Music and Computer Science and Engineering and UC San Diego's Qualcomm Institute, and Gérard Assayag, a researcher at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music in Paris, recently received a ¤2.4 million (around $2.8 million) European Research Council Advanced Grant. Dubnov and Assayag will be working with other international partners on Project REACH: Raising Co-creativity in Cyber-Human Musicianship , which is teaching computers how to improvise, musically. The Conversation. Almost all human interactions are improvisational, with each party modifying their responses based on real-time feedback. But computers, even with the most sophisticated AI, are constrained by their programming.
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