Considering human imagination the last piece of wilderness, do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song? - The Red Hand Files

What we are actually listening to is human limitation and the audacity to transcend it. Artificial Intelligence, for all its unlimited potential, simply doesn’t have this capacity. How could it? And this is the essence of transcendence. If we have limitless potential then what is there to transcend? And therefore what is the purpose of the imagina

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It is perfectly conceivable that AI could produce a song as good as Nirvana’s  Smells Like Teen Spirit , for example, and that it ticked all the boxes required to make us feel what a song like that should make us feel – in this case, excited and rebellious, let’s say. It is also feasible that AI could produce a song that makes us feel these sa

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