Catchy Christmas songs can now be created by a special songwriting AI, taught by studying existing tunes.

The system came up with catchy jingles with names like “Syllabub Chocolatebell,” “Peaches Twinkleleaves” and “Cocoa Jollyfluff.”

Researchers from Made by AI trained a neural* network by inputting 100 Christmas tunes in the form of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI*) files. It then picked out recurring themes, motifs*, instruments and rhythms to generate its own hits.

A spokesperson from Made by AI said: “The tunes generated with AI have similarities with classical memorable Christmas music and that is the point, otherwise it would be a random* tune with no connection to the holidays.”

Neural networks are a type of computer program that imitate* the way that brains learn to solve problems. MIDI versions of Christmas songs provided a broad base for the team to train the software in order for it to imitate Christmas songs. Neural networks tend to pick up tone and vocabulary easily, but struggle with making sense.(SD-Agencies)