Month: September 2022

BOT ART. "AARON's capacity to paint improved year after year as its maker taught it more difficult or complex techniques. It learned to situate objects or people in 3D space in the 1980s, and could paint in color from 1990 onwards. In time its paintings found their way into many of the world's major art museums and onward into the hands of private collectors who paid hundreds or even thousands of dollars for AARON's art." https://lnkd.in/d3SWWyP View in LinkedIn

BOT MUSIC. "It’s one of many musical pieces written by a bot called Emily Howell. “She” can write an infinite amount of new music all day for free, and a blind test showed that people couldn’t tell the difference between her work and the work of human composers. The technology works by analyzing human compositions and synthesizing an original output while retaining many of the same distinguishing characteristics." https://lnkd.in/dUXTcDM View in LinkedIn

REDUCTIVE ANALYSIS. "Composer David Cope, a UC Santa Cruz professor, has invented software that analyzes music, seeking the patterns and styles, the rhythms and harmonies, that might be said to make up a composer’s unique fingerprint." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn

REDUCTIVE MUTATIONS. "Cope’s “Experiments in Musical Intelligence” (EMI, pronounced “Emmy”) disassembles the music, makes some alterations, and then recombines the parts to make a new whole." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn

PASSABLE. "Several of the songs sound authentic enough to pass what might be considered a musical version of the Turing Test: On many occasions, audiences have been unable to distinguish between the man-made and machine-made music." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn

NOT CREATIVITY. "AI theorist Terry Dartnall speaks not of creativity but of musical “reverse engineering"." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn