Robot Music Video

Are we being replaced? Becoming obsolete? Machines have been replacing humans in all kinds of manual labor activities at least since the industrial revolution began. Yet, more and more intelligent machines are competing and winning against humans at what were previously thought to be activities supposedly within the clearly and exclusively human domain. It all started with repetitive-motion labor, such as the one replicated by the first wool-weaving machines. Then it moved on to simple calculations and, eventually, complex ones such as chess. Recently, attempts have demonstrated that even teaching, jeopardy or playing and composing music are not safe. Check out the robot music videos below. While the robotic performances are clearly rather crude, somewhat amateurishly homemade and not quite virtuoso yet, do you really think that playing music is really that different from playing chess or jeopardy? How long [...]