Ex-Amazon Software Engineer Creates AI Music-Playing Program AutoHarp

Paul Mariz, working with AutoHarp, a song-generating program to which musicians can jam along. Dave Segal
After 13 years at Amazon, including a stint doing cloud computing, software engineer and musician Paul Mariz left in 2012 and shortly thereafter started working on a project called AutoHarp. It's a computer program that composes and plays music via MIDI; he thinks it will be the opposite of DARPA's machine learning bots—MUSICA—that are learning to play jazz in the service of the