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EI Talks... AI and the threat to the arts

Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts

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The Importance of Formlessness in Music

I think perhaps our human intuitions fail when we try to imagine what could be constructed out of billions and billions of data sets about text and music. We may be utterly confounded that a thing that appears profoundly non-human with immense processing power can actually recreate something that seems frighteningly human whether I think the crucial question is a psychological one. Will people care about a chess game between computers will people care about music produced by AI? The answer so far seems to be that's not interesting but it's just wonder with music because it's a combination of form and sort of formlessness like Music's obviously physical it goes into your ear and then it hits those parts of the brain which are you

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