Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry's top tech writers. This week's pick is a musical artificial intelligence project.
Many amateur and professional musicians spend hours studying YouTube videos of favorite songs so they can learn how to play along, said Mariella Moon at Engadget. A new AI project at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could make that process far easier. PixelPlayer "can recognize instruments in a video, identify specific ones at pixel level, and isolate the sounds they produce."
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