{"id":8099,"date":"2016-12-19T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T21:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/?post_type=cool-stuff-found&#038;p=8099"},"modified":"2016-12-19T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T21:33:36","slug":"first-ai-written-christmas-song-soul-crushing-fruitcake","status":"publish","type":"cool-stuff-found","link":"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/es\/cool-stuff-found\/first-ai-written-christmas-song-soul-crushing-fruitcake\/","title":{"rendered":"The First AI-Written Christmas Song Is More Soul-Crushing than Fruitcake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gather ye around the yule log, so festive, warm, and bright! Listen to this song of Christmas cheer written and composed by an AI. And hold on to your loved ones as said tune sucks the soul from your very bones and leaves you quivering in the naked fear not that the morrow will not come, but that it will come and you will be forced to endure another day contemplating the futility and hopelessness of life! \u00a0\u00abI&#8217;ve always been there for the rest of our lives. A hundred and a half hours ago. I&#8217;m glad to meet you. I can hear the music coming from the hall.\u00bb Now that, dear friends, is the Christmas stuff of nightmares, as <em>HowStuffWorks<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/now.howstuffworks.com\/2016\/12\/12\/artificial-intelligence-christmas-carol-song\">put it<\/a>. And yes, I am dying, both from laughter and abject fear. This \u00absong,\u00bb such as it is, was the result of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/pdf?id=ByBwSPcex\">a neural network project<\/a> from The University of Toronto. They fed in 100 hours of holiday music, a bunch of holiday photographs with captions, and said, \u00abNow you do it.\u00bb The song below was the result. Put another way, score ones for the humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[404,660],"class_list":["post-8099","cool-stuff-found","type-cool-stuff-found","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ai","tag-christmas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The First AI-Written Christmas Song Is More Soul-Crushing than Fruitcake - The Mac Observer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/es\/cool-stuff-found\/first-ai-written-christmas-song-soul-crushing-fruitcake\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The First AI-Written Christmas Song Is More Soul-Crushing than Fruitcake\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gather ye around the yule log, so festive, warm, and bright! 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