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73 | Grimes (c) on Music, Creativity, and Digital Personae
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Last Best Artists, Right?
Douglas Hofstadter wrote or found a music writing software AI and had it emulate Chopin. He played an early sort of juvenile piece by Chopin and said, you know, which one sounds better? Everyone voted for the computer to be more Chopin like. It came up with things that they had never imagined. I feel like we're kind of in this like amazing time where we might be like the last artist ever. Which is like feels fun. The last best artists, we're already the last best chess players, right? Yeah. Like human. We have the last chess players. I mean, they're already like obsolete, I guess.
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