In the early 2000s a professor demoed a neural net composing classical music, then joined DeepMind
Kyrannio · x · 2026-09-23
In a thread on first AI exposures, founder fabianstelzer recalls his cognitive science undergrad in the early 2000s, when AI meant rule-based systems and computational linguistics and real AI felt decades away — a prediction he notes was actually right. One professor demoed a neural net he'd trained to generate convincing classical music, impressive for the time but largely dismissed by academia; that professor later joined DeepMind.
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