Catchy Christmas songs can now be created by a special songwriting AI, taught by studying existing festive tunes.

The system came up with catchy jingles with names like 'Syllabub Chocolatebell', 'Peaches Twinkleleaves' and 'Cocoa Jollyfluff'.

Researchers from Made by AI trained a neural network by inputting one hundred Christmas tunes in the form of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files.

It then picked out recurring themes, motifs, instruments and rhythms to generate its own hits.

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Scientists have trained an AI system to write its own catchy Christmas songs by teaching it existing festive tunes. The system came up with catchy tunes with names like 'Syllabub Chocolatebell, 'Peaches Twinkleleaves' and 'Cocoa Jollyfluff' (stock image)

A spokesperson from Made by AI said: 'The tunes generated with AI have similarities with classical memorable Christmas music - and that is the point - otherwise it would be a random tune with no connection to the upcoming Holidays.'

Neural networks are a type of computer program that imitate the way that brains learn to solve problems.

MIDI versions of Christmas songs provided a broad base for the team to train the software in order for it to imitate Christmas songs.

Neural networks tend to pick up tone and vocabulary easily, but struggle with making sense.

So, the carol-trained network learned to produce a lot of lines that sounded joyful.

The software was able to pick out themes synonymous with Christmas to come up with songs of its own.

It generated five tunes which are now available on the Made by AI Soundcloud page.

The AI also came up with the names for the tunes.

The team noted that they only had limited time to work on the network but said with 'more work and adherence to musical concepts such as structure and repetition, it might be possible to generate something a little more catchy'.

Researchers from Made by AI trained a neural network by inputting one hundred Christmas tunes in the form of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files. MIDI versions of Christmas songs provided a broad base for the team to train the model for it to imitate Christmas songs (stock image)