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If you’re a musician, you may want to skip this story. The march of automation, thirsty for more jobs to claim, has taken the songwriter’s role with a new artificial intelligence from Sony CSL research laboratory. The FlowMachines software scanned 13,000 pieces of sheet music from a variety of styles, allowing a human composer to pick a style and have the software generate both melody and harmony. Audio recordings were matched to the melodies, before the resulting song was polished up by humans. The first

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