Hard to put my finger on it. Robotic, soulless? Like pretty much exactly what you'd expect coming from an an entity or a thing that thinks music is just about

Hard to put my finger on it. Robotic, soulless? Like pretty much exactly what you'd expect coming from an an entity or a thing that thinks music is just about notes and mathematical patterns... and not about emotions, or an experience that you feel in your body. On a less handy-wavy level, I suspect there are issues of tone and timing embedded in human-generated musical expression that these algorithms don't begin to capture. In the same way that - no matter how much they keep tweaking their markov chains and phoneme scales -- we can always tell that a machine-generated voice sounds "off" somehow, literally within tens of milliseconds. As the saying goes: it don't mean thing if it ain't got that je n'sais quoi.