A world first
Researchers at imec managed to teach the new microchip how to write music on its own. “To achieve that, we first programmed classical minuets into the chip,” explains researcher Diederik Verkest. “The chip then learns how to recognize patterns and rhythms from those existing minuets and use them to create new music. Imec is the first to have developed a demo version of this type of self-learning chip.”