Royal Caribbean Now Sets Your Vacation Photos to Music Using AI

Berklee College of Music helps cruise line train a song bot

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Everyone loves posting a good vacation photo to Instagram—but what if each one could have its own unique soundtrack, too?

Royal Caribbean is experimenting with that possibility, on Tuesday launching an online tool that turns user images into kaleidoscopic mini-videos, complete with original music inspired by the visuals — and assembled by artificial intelligence (AI).

A picture from a botanical garden, of red flowers and green leaves, generates two bars of smooth jazz. An elaborate piece of graffiti on a brick wall renders into a crunching hip-hop beat.

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