AI and Beethoven's 10th

 Yes.

His tenth.

But he only has nine you say.

Yes, but he had many sketches for his tenth at the time of his death.

So what?

Yes, we can never know exactly what he would have created had he finished it but we can gleam something from it, through Artificial Intelligence.

AI works through a process of cognition through a hero sketch and repetition, followed by an execution effort.

So we might take a very clear photo of a person, teach the AI system who that person is, then run thousands of video files through it to find instances where a person is in the frame who looks like that hero photo.

With Beethoven we have nine completed symphonies to teach the AI and a sketch of the tenth.  Why not finish it?

Here is a brief history of the 10th as it was prior to AI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._10_(Beethoven/Cooper)

And here is a story about he completion of the 10th using AI:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-artificial-intelligence-completed-beethovens-unfinished-10th-symphony-180978753/

Here is a snippet from that piece:

The task at hand eventually crystallized. We would need to use notes and completed compositions from Beethoven’s entire body of work - along with the available sketches from the Tenth Symphony - to create something that Beethoven himself might have written.

This was a tremendous challenge. We didn’t have a machine that we could feed sketches to, push a button and have it spit out a symphony. Most A.I. available at the time couldn’t continue an uncompleted piece of music beyond a few additional seconds.

Best,

J.W. Gant