Google's Artificial Intelligence Could Transform the Way We Make Music
The debate has begun; can music created by artificial intelligence be called art? Is it “real” music? Google has released a sample song that was created with their program Project Magenta and it’s getting a lot of attention worldwide. It’s not the first of it’s kind either; Startup Amper Music uses Ai to match emotions that a film producer wants to evoke and produces an original song. Using Ai to create music has stirred up a bit of controversy in the arts community, where it is already tough enough to make it as a music professional. What are your thoughts? Will this help or harm our industry?
Read on to hear what other leaders in the field are saying in this article by Matt McFarland for the Washington Post.
“...David Cope, a retired professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz and pioneer in computer generated music, believes it's inevitable that one day the best composers will use artificial intelligence to aid their work.
"It's going to rampage through the film music industry," Cope said. "It's going to happen just as cars happened and we didn't have the horse and buggy anymore." He's confident in this given the exponential growth of computing power, which for decades has doubled about every two years.
With digital tools improving so quickly, it's become difficult for musicians to stay on the cutting edge while also mastering their instrument of choice.
"The violinist uses the same instrument for a whole career potentially, and they develop the kind of virtuosity on that instrument because they have that intimate relationship with it day after day for years and years," said Peter Swendsen, an Oberlin professor of computer music and digital arts. "Software comes and goes in weeks sometimes
As machines have become more a part of our lives, we can count on them to share in the artistic process.
For the 75-year-old Cope, this is a great thing, and nothing to be afraid of.
"The computer is just a really, really high-class shovel," Cope said. "I love this new stuff and want it to come fast enough so I'm not dead when it happens."
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2 年I love the Google Magenta Project so far! Seeing how AI can help enhance creativity in music and art and allowing freedom of expression is very exciting! Glad these tools are free and available for anyone to learn and use!
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6 年The questions on this subject go back to our value of all human life. Created things by human beings must always be more valuable than mechanically or AI created things. Why do I believe this? Because of the (sacred) value of human life and people having capacity as “gods “. Entertain with me the “AI” created dog that looks like a dog, responds like a dog and has no real living soul, (mind, will or emotions). I value the living dog even though the “AI” engineered thing may sound exquisite it will never be the authentic and legitimate living breathing dog or music. It may sound good and great, but a person’s self is not involved in creating it, therefore to me, the object will always hold a lesser value than what another living breathing soul made or created. The same for clothes. I think man pushes the limits and pushes development only to come fuller circle with himself; confronted with a more refined knowledge, limitation and values of our lives.
Interesting!
Performer, Songwriter & Writer
8 年Music is preference, and based on this, there is good music and bad music. Bad songs make it to number one, and great songs never hit the charts. It's unlikely AI will create great songs every time.