![]() ![]() Only a human can to that, and only a few at that.”Īnother reason computer music won’t dominate the Billboard Charts and Spotify playlists anytime soon is that music’s popularity depends on more than the music itself. AI can assist with this, but for it to truly manipulate people’s feelings with music? No, it’s not good enough to do that. So you switch from ballads to upbeat, happy music. And after a while it’s like, OK, I’ve gotta pick myself up. ![]() So you listen to sad songs and you get yourself in a mood. “You've had a bad breakup and at first you want to wallow in it. “We often use music to regulate our emotions in some way,” says Pamela Pavliscak, a professor of design at the Pratt Institute, who advises tech companies on emotional issues around computing. But who would be the defendant? Is it the computer, the composer of the software, or the company releasing the music? Likely, the defendant will have a central nervous system rather than a central processing unit.īut AI Music can provide many useful functions to us humans, including as a tool for complex film and game music or as a service to provide soothing music near a crying baby at a shopping mall, for example. Did it change any lives? Maybe.Īnd when the Singularity comes, will there be any more music copyright infringement lawsuits? Maybe not, but while we’re waiting for the Singularity, if it ever comes, AI music could be the subject of a copyright, trademark or name and likeness lawsuit if the music simulates the style of a human musician or copies a song. The disputed passage in the song sounds like it was composed by a metronome. Take Katy Perry’s “ Dark Horse,” the target of an ill-fated copyright infringement lawsuit. Or can it? Some of today’s pop music already sounds like it comes from a data processing device. We’ll want songs to soothe, excite and change our lives, and that can’t come from a computer. So, when the Singularity comes, what singles will we want to hear, if we’re still here? Human slip ups are strangely captivating and lend authenticity. Or consider Pharrell Williams’ pitchy vocals on N.E.R.D’s “ Run To The Sun,” where autotune would have fixed it, but also would have ruined the magic human error sometimes produces. Take John Paul Jones’ bungled bass stumble at 1:50 of Led Zepellin’s “ Good Times, Bad Times,” where he misses the change from verse to chorus but recovers at lightning speed. “It is by intimacy with the flaw that we discern our real humanity and our real connection with divine inspiration,” he said. Cohen knew that human flaws were a key to great art. But AI Music shows that computers will not replace humans any time soon, at least when it comes to music, or at least meaningful music.Ĭould a computer create something as life-changing as Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah?” That masterpiece was the result of around 80 drafts, some reportedly spawned in New York’s Royalton Hotel where the songwriter in his underwear said he banged his head on the floor to coax some of the song out of him. So will AI Music take gigs away from human musicians? It’s the same fear facing most professions these days, the same dread echoed in Elon Musk’s warning that we’re headed toward the “Singularity,” a Matrix-like existence where AI takes control away from humans. Just as someone who doesn’t know how to cook could make a perfect cake with the right mix, so too a Spotify user who doesn’t know where middle C is on a keyboard could make perfect music, with AI assistance. “It was that bit of effort,” Pachet says, “so she could say she made the cake. They removed dried egg from an instant cake mix, so the customers – usually housewives back then – would have to add a fresh egg. As the story goes, a food conglomerate in the 1950s boosted sales when they figured out that when you get the customer involved in the cooking, even a little, sales rise. “It’s like the instant cake mix story,” Pachet says. ![]()
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