Unfinished Beethoven symphony reimagined by AI
By AFP
06 September 2021 |
8:35 am
Inspired by Beethoven's unfinished 10th symphony, a computer has generated 'BeethovANN Symphony 10.1', imagining how the mysterious piece might have sounded, with ANN referring to the artificial neural network that created it.
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