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Will an AI ever create lyrics that are emotionally meaningful to humans? Could AI’s
greatest contribution to music be creating new genres? How good is AI at replicating
human singing?
One of the most creatively demanding and gratifying activities that people can do together is
improvise music. It requires virtuosity, motor skills, timing, trust, and 'feel,' with each member
working in the present to keep the music moving. When cooperation works, the results
appear almost miraculous, yet successful collaboration is delicate and difficult to achieve,
even for the finest music improvisers. What happens when one of the musicians is a
machine learning algorithm?
Music and artificial intelligence have long been linked. Alan Turing, the computer science
godfather, created a machine in 1951 that generated three basic songs. David Bowie began
experimenting with a digital lyric randomizer for inspiration in the 1990s. Simultaneously, a
music theory professor taught a computer programme to produce new pieces in the manner
of Bach; when an audience heard its work next to a genuine Bach piece, they couldn't tell
the difference.
The subject of AI music has advanced significantly in recent years, due in part to dedicated
research teams at universities, financing from big internet corporations, and machine
learning conferences like as NeurIPS.
Dan Tepfer
Tepfer received international recognition for his 2011 CD Goldberg Variations / Variations,
which featured him performing and improvising on J.S. Bach's masterpiece—to "elegant,
contemplative, and exhilarating" effect (New York magazine). Natural Machines, Tepfer's
latest video album, is one of his most inventively forward-thinking yet, with him investigating
in real time the convergence of science and art, coding and improvisation, digital algorithms
and heart beats. According to the New York Times, he is "a fundamentally rational
improviser driven to the unknown."
Holly Herndon
AI might frequently appear to be a black box. "There is a barrier to entrance," Herndon
explained. "I get that, but there are some beliefs I have now that I would not have had if I
hadn't read the buzzy pieces circulating around the internet." She claims that the experience
is not as faultless as Apple or Amazon would have us believe, and that the programming that
supports it is not devoid of human prejudice.