>> But a human listener can recognise the same piece of music
>> performed by a completely different group, and a totally unrelated
>> style. No computer can do that.
>
> This is incorrect. I watched our server listen to someone singing
> "Yesterday" on American Idol and our computer correctly recognizing it
> as a Beatles song.

This would be a rather stunning result for AI. Last time I checked, AI 
is poor to the point of being utterly useless for most if not all 
recognition tasks. Even something trivial like OCR doesn't work very 
well yet.

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