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The National Science Foundation is funding a search tool that claims to identify aesthetic similarities between pieces of music. The breakthrough would presumably make it easier for music enthusiasts to discover previously unknown work or artists.

According to the patent and grant applications, the technology behind a "similarity search engine" comes from research into so-called Artificial Art Critics. These AACs are composed of two components: an evaluator to weigh how a typical human population would judge the aesthetic quality of a piece, and a feature extractor to identify its general qualities.

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