There are other applications of AI in music beyond the entertainment industry. Mercury Orbit Music – selected as one of the 38 qualified teams the $5M IBM Watson AI XPRIZE – uses machine learning as an educational tool, or what they call “edutainment”. Their software is a learning platform for students to test out their musical creativity. “It’s about human-to-AI creative collaboration, that’s our goal, what we do,” says founder and CEO Yang Zhang, who is also a musician with a background in film composition.
