new delhi google doodle on friday celebrated the birth anniversary of renowned german composer and musician johann sebastian bach with its first ever aipowered doodlebach was born in a small german town of eisenach in 1685 he grew up in a large musical family his father played multiple instruments and also worked as director of the towns musicians his eldest brother also a musician raised young bach from the age of 10 after his fathers passing primarily known as an exceptional organist during his lifetime bach also understood how to build and repair the complex inner mechanisms of pipe organs which are depicted in todays interactive doodlebach could compose music at a prolific pace sometimes at the rate of one cantata per week google doodle in its note on bach saidhe was a humble man who attributed his success to divine inspiration and a strict work ethic he lived to see only a handful of his works published but more than 1000 that survived in manuscript form are now published and performed all over the worldbachs reputation soared following the 19th century bach revival as the music world gained new appreciation for his innovative use of fourpart harmony but musicians werent the only ones affected by bachs musicafter the voyager 2 deep space probe launched scientist and author lewis thomas suggested that the human race broadcast its music to the outermost reaches of the solar system i would vote for bach all of bach he wrote we would be bragging of courseexplaining the first ever aipowered doodle google said that it made it in partnership with the google magenta and google pair teams the doodle gives an interactive experience encouraging players to compose a two measure melody of their choice with the press of a button the doodle then uses machine learning to harmonize the custom melody into bachs signature music stylemachine learning is the process of teaching a computer to come up with its own answers by showing it a lot of examples instead of giving it a set of rules to follow as is done in traditional computer programmingtodays model behind the google doodle was trained on 306 of bachs chorale harmonizations to harmonize the custom melody that users createin another doodle first the doodle is also served with googles new tensor processing units tpus a way of quickly handling machine learning tasks in data centers the doodle facilitates machine learning within a web browser generally such applications run utilizing tons of servers as machine learning traditionally doeswatch google celebrates composer johann sebastian bach with a doodle