The Week contest: AI concerto
This week's question: A three-armed robot conductor called MAiRA Pro S recently made its debut performance, leading an all-human orchestra in the German city of Dresden. If a composer were to rewrite a famous piece of classic music especially for this machine maestro, what should the bot-friendly work be titled?
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RESULTS:
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THE WINNER: "A Little Byte Music"
Steve Salerno, Mundelein, Illinois
SECOND PLACE: "Symphony No. 5 in C++"
Emily Dentinger, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
THIRD PLACE: "Code to Joy"
Larry Hance, Barboursville, Virginia
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"William Intel Overture"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
"R2-Etude"
Michael Rouse, Troy, Michigan
"The 1010010 Overture"
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
"The Source-coder’s Apprentice"
Bruce Carlson, Alexandria, Virginia
"Ride of the HAL-kyries"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Rhapsody in Deep Blue”
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia
"Turanbot"
Jeff Jerome, Northampton, Massachusetts
"Requiem (for Humanity)"
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts
"Ave MAiRA"
Sally Morrison, Rocky Point, New York
"La Robohème"
Rick Torrence, The Village, Oklahoma
"Carmina Burandroid"
Jeff Jarrett, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Pomp and Circuit Dance"
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida
"Enigma Machine Variations"
Ed Markarian, Santa Monica, California
"AI-da"
Bob Lehr, San Francisco, California
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