For the first time in history, scientists have succeeded in reviving a classic song from a famous rock band by leveraging modern technology in artificial intelligence, based on a report published in the British newspaper “Financial Times”.
The classic songs of “Pink Floyd” band emerged from the speakers in a neuroscience lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Despite the mysterious rhythms and lyrics, they are recognizable.
The song that was broadcast was not a recording of the rock band, but was created using artificial intelligence techniques by analyzing the brain waves of people listening to it.
The study published in the “Journals Plus” journal indicates that artificial intelligence has become sufficiently capable of reconstructing a part of songs.
These study results support scientists seeking to understand how the brain responds to music, and also assist experts in neural technology aiming to help individuals suffering from severe neurological damage communicate more naturally through brain-computer interfaces, whether speaking or singing.
Neuropathy is also known as “peripheral nerve damage” and occurs due to several different reasons such as diabetes, chronic alcohol consumption, exposure to harmful substances, deficiencies in specific types of B vitamins, and acquiring immunodeficiency virus, according to “Mayo Clinic”.
During the study, scientists identified the areas in the brain responsible for the ability to sense rhythm, revealing that some parts of the auditory cortex located behind and directly above the ear respond to the onset of sound, while other parts respond to “continuous singing”.
Devices used to assist people in communication when unable to speak tend to “pronounce words sequentially”. In contrast, sentences produced by artificial intelligence have a “robotic quality”, resembling the way the late physicist Stephen Hawking used a “speech-generating device”.
Researchers at Berkeley believe that brain-reading technology could reach a point where it can decode “music-related thoughts”.
Afterward, it may be possible to imagine or compose music, transmit and listen to musical information through external speakers, according to the “Financial Times”.
