Amazon made an AI musical keyboard, but it sounds "terrible"

Amazon has unveiled a musical keyboard AWS DeepComposer, a two-octave, 32-key keyboard with a built-in artificial intelligence (AI) which allows users to play a short tune, or use a pre-recorded one, ask the keyboard to embellish it in one of four styles - jazz, classical, rock or pop - and then publish it on Soundcloud. There's a "but" - judging by the single audio example provided by Amazon in a blog it's - "terrible. A musician with a basic sequencing ability could easily mock up better examples", prof Nick Collins, an expert on musical AI at Durham University, told the BBC.