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<p>You know the singularity has arrived when the robots start playing
marimbas. Shimon, engineer Guy Hoffman’s robot musician, doesn’t play
programmed music — it improvises in ensembles with human players,
communicating with a “socially expressive head” and favoring musical
ideas that are unlikely to be chosen by humans, so as to lead the
performance in genuinely novel directions.</p>
<p>“The project, therefore, aims to combine human creativity, emotion,
and aesthetic judgment with algorithmic computational capability of
computers, allowing human and artificial players to cooperate and build
off each other’s ideas,” notes the Georgia Tech Center for Music
Technology, Shimon’s patron. “Unlike computer- and speaker-based
interactive music systems, an embodied anthropomorphic robot can create
familiar, acoustically rich, and visual interactions with humans.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gtcmt.gatech.edu/projects/shimon">More at Georgia Tech.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gtcmt.gatech.edu/projects/shimon">----<br></a></p><p>Well, surprisingly, it doesn't totally suck. Of course it remains to be seen how good it really is.</p><p>-Dave<br></p><p><a href="http://www.gtcmt.gatech.edu/projects/shimon"></a></p></div></div></div>