Robot Sings Eurovision Kitsch Composed by Oracle AI, Israelis
- Algorithm fed hundreds of Eurovision songs, produced new one
- ‘Blue Jeans and Bloody Tears’ created in under two months
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What do you get when you cross a computer with some corny lyrics? A Eurovision song, apparently.
With 41 countries competing in the annual contest this week in Tel Aviv, a team set about to marry traditional Eurovision kitsch with the power of artificial intelligence. Algorithms developed by Oracle Corp. and Israeli poet and programmer Eran Hadas analyzed hundreds of past Eurovision songs to create the melody and lyrics for “Blue Jeans and Bloody Tears,” a tale of disillusioned love that Israel’s 1978 Eurovision winner Izhar Cohen sings in a duet with a pink robot.