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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I mean — he’s defending human creativity and he’s kind of right. AI can recreate variations of the things it is trained on, but it doesn’t create new paradigms.

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People always says AI do create only variations but many successful TV shows are variations. I started watching sitcoms from the 70s and many things were copied/adapted in recent shows.

[–] FLP22012005@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That just muzak for a visual medium.

[–] Fungah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

99% of everything people create is a variation.

Truly innovative anything is RARE.

There's just stuff and things people haven't thought to combine with stuff yet.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, also I think there is something about the human connection and communicating personal ideas and feelings that just isn't there with AI generated art. I could see a case for an argument that a lot of music today is recorded by artists who didn't write that music, and that they are expressing their own feelings through their performance of someone else's creation. And is it really all that different if an AI wrote something that resonated with an artist who ultimately performed it? Which for a good chunk of pop-culture regurgitations may be completely valid. But in my opinion, the best art, communicates emotion, which an experience unique to biology, AI might be able to approximate it, and sure there's a human prompting the AI who might genuinely have those feelings, but there's a hollowness to it that I struggle to ignore. But maybe I'm just getting older and will be yelling at clouds before long.