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Automatar: Intelligent AI Guitar

Jimmy Day

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The Automatar is an intelligent AI-powered bass guitar born to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. 

While the instrument functions on some level similarly to any fretted string instrument like a guitar or bass, it innovatively and unprecedentedly is built around a NVIDIA GPU physically embedded within it that imbues the instrument itself with a form of intelligence, enabling it to understand how its being played and vibrate its own strings in response via an onboard AI model. As a human musician plays the main set of four strings, the instrument electromagnetically actuates itself to harmonize and react in turn. 

What comes next when so much of human creativity can be replicated instantly by machines? How can we shape technology to preserve our relationship with the past and with the old ways of making music that humans have used for thousands of years?

Crafted painstakingly entirely from scratch, the Automatar is an intelligent machine built to challenge the ideology of automation through artificial intelligence.