Do Androids Dream of Electronic Dance Music?

AI is everywhere in our lives these days: recommending our TV shows, planning our car trips, and running our day-to-day lives through artificially intelligent assistants like Siri and Alexa. But are machines capable of creativity? Can they write poems, paint pictures, or compose music that moves human audiences? We believe they can! In this talk, we’ll use Ruby and cutting-edge machine learning tools to train a neural network on human-generated Electronic Dance Music (EDM), then see what sorts of music the machine dreams up.