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I couldn’t agree more. We have very little basis to judge whether the algorithm did Beethoven justice and so all the celebration is really for a non-event. A co
by williamtrask 5y ago
I couldn’t agree more. We have very little basis to judge whether the algorithm did Beethoven justice and so all the celebration is really for a non-event. A computer wrote down notes after other notes. Maybe they sound not too dissonant. That’s not news.
- macrolocal 5y agoThis statement feels too strong. An algorithm completed Beethoven's tenth symphony, and it did a passable job, maybe better than what a graduate student could achieve. That's exciting for tool-assisted composition, even if it tells us nothing about Beethoven's historical vision for the symphony.
- moviewise 5y agoAgree! This is great and exciting. When people learn to play music composed by someone else, they are experiencing/living to some degree the mind of the composer. And music can fairly be described as sets of repeatable patterns. So if AI can take the entirety of a composer's life's work and discern key patterns, replicate them even, then some aspect of the mind of the composer is reborn. This is immortality. A dedicated grad student could probably do it for one composer; AI can do it for ALL composers. And humanity is all the better for it :)