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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Will A Computer Program Be The Next Beethoven?

A player piano isn't really impressive anymore, unless you're a little kid seeing one for the first time, and then it's kind of like magic. But imagine the piano is playing a song it wrote on its own. Does that change anything? What if you couldn't tell the difference between songs the piano had written and ones that were written by a living, breathing human being?

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