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The Future of Music: 'Bot Dylan' (???)


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From "The Daily Mail"

 

"Researchers have created a 'Bot Dylan' computer that is capable of writing its own folk music. The system uses artificial intelligence to compose new tunes after it was trained using 23,000 pieces of Irish folk music. This allowed the machine to learn the patterns and structures that make for a catchy tune before it created its own pieces of music that we showcased at a concert in London this week.

 

"Dr Oded Ben-Tal, a senior lecturer in music technology at Kingston University in London, said: 'We didn't expect any of the machine-generated melodies to be very good. But we, and several other musicians we worked with, were really surprised at the quality of the music the system created. People are reluctant to believe machines can be creative – it's seen as a very human trait. However, the fact of the matter is, technology and creativity have been interconnected for a long time and this is just another step in that direction.'"

 

 

A clip of the AI generated music and more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4544400/Researchers-create-computer-writes-folk-music.html#ixzz4iIwnENhB

 

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When photography was invented, people speculated that there would be no need for painters any longer.

 

The two modes of creating images simply continued on separate paths. As humans will certainly do - if a machine could do "realism" better than a human, then the humans began inventing cubism, expressionism, abstract art, etc. etc.

 

It won't be hard to stay a step or fifty ahead of the bots. Of course there will be a market for bot-music, sure. It's the next logical step for muzak-type material.

 

nat

 

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