AI and the future of music


Last night’s 60 minutes featured a deep look at Google’s new AI program BARD. Frightening, yet compelling.

It got me thinking, if their AI has already read everything on the internet, and can create verse, stories, etc in seconds…What could it do for music?

‘Hey , BARD create a new Beatles like song from the Rubber Soul era, but have Paul Rodgers and Jack Bruce singing”.

“Hey BARD, create a song that will melt the heart of my new girlfriend”.

 

your ideas?

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Showing 2 responses by tylermunns

How could A.I. possibly be any good for music?  
What is the point of listening to music?  
I listen to it to have a human experience.  
There is human-to-human communication occurring there.  
I’m not particularly interested in what HAL-9000 “thinks” or “feels.”  
Why? Because it ain’t a human.  
I’m kind of alarmed that not everyone is alarmed by the prospect of A.I. infiltrating music “creation” and distribution.

I really chafe at the false equivalence, the general fallaciousness, and the abject awe-mongering that defines the typical Artificial Intelligence Apologia argument.  
You can always see these arguments coming a mile away.  
There is a clear difference between technological advancements like toasters, microwaves, etc. and the dawn of dominant artificial intelligence in everyday life. 
C’mon, man…  
Seriously.