Google is expanding its research and development of the artificial intelligence platform. The tech giant has released a preview of how its newest AI systems, called Magenta, generates art and music. Google is planning to officially launch the project on June 1, at the annual music and tech festival Moogfest.

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Magenta was developed by Google's Brain AI group, the same team responsible for integrating artificial intelligence in Google services like Inbox, Photos, and Translate. Magenta is the computational power of TensorFlow, Google's open-source library designed for machine learning.

According to Engadget, the goal of Magenta is to answer the question: "Can machines make music and art? If so, how? If not, why not?"

The idea of a computer creating music and art has been on the fringes of the tech industry for many years. A composer, Dr. Nick Collins, is a particular expert in this field and had already launched a computer-generated musical earlier this year. Tech experts with an inclination to music and art have also created songs using recurrent neural network code that is available publicly. Moreover, companies like Jukedeck have started selling their technology.

This is not Google's first foray into the field of AI for art and music. The company has the DeepDream project, a visual artificial intelligence that can transform conventional photos into psychedelic art.

In a sense, Magenta works in almost the same capacity as DeepDream. Magenta can process simple musical inputs into recognizable music in the same way that DeepDream creates psychedelic photos out of ordinary ones.

Google Brain researcher Douglas Eck claims that the main mission of the project is to see whether computers can semi-independently create new works of art.

According to Independent, Magenta will be released as a tool for researchers and musicians to upload music files into the AI's software. Through this, Google hopes that the AI will start to learn composing recognizing music.

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