A NEW CHAPTER IN HOW MUSIC IS COMPOSED: We’ve reached a new chapter in how music is composed, and no, we’re not merely talking about AI — the technology that striking Hollywood writers and actors are up against. A Pink Floyd song made with AI and brain scans sounds a lot like the band, the Washington Post reported. Researchers at the University of California, the report said, examined the brain activity of over two dozen people who listened to the song. This data was then decoded by a machine learning model (Hello AI!) and reconstructed back into audio, which sounded similar to the original! This is the first time research has been conducted in such a manner. But there’s a deeper purpose into this work. Scientists hope to one day develop a technology that can help people with speech difficulties communicate with each other. This also marks, in a long time, when AI has been in good news. Even Pink Floyd would perhaps doff their hat to the researchers’ work and sing, “Lost For Words.” (By Rajagopalan Venkataraman, Assistant Editor-Features)