>We've been making the equivalent of HMM-based "music in the style of (i.e. generative stochastic processes modeled on) Beethoven" since the 60s, but such a des

>We've been making the equivalent of HMM-based "music in the style of (i.e. generative stochastic processes modeled on) Beethoven" since the 60s, but such a design is to going to write the next hit. Or if it does, it won't write the following 10 by itself. This is important to recognize, yes, but it's also important to realize that for every 1 AI agent that writes a hit, there's going to millions others (or more) crunching away at songs that aren't hits (like musicians currently, but many more, working more hours, and pumping out many more songs each). The next 10 hits don't need to all come from the same AI musician to "take over" pop. They just need to come from 10 of millions others all competing with each other (and humans) for those top spots. Even with current technology, this really isn't so much a music generation problem as it is a filter problem asking "how do you know which of these billion (generated or not) songs are going to be hits?".