Are we discussing AI or the supposed lack of music taste in general public? Again, saying "people are stupid" does not demonstrate a particular AI is smart of interesting. And anyway, people are smarter than they often get credit for.
> the music would actually give them the same satisfaction they receive from manmade music
You believe this because...? None of the generated tracks I've heard so far is anywhere near the kind of music people would listen to for the sake of the music itself.
Some people do listen to music to drawn out distracting conversations around them. Perfectly sensible thing to do. However, in those cases music can be replaced with white noise of nature's sounds. This does not demonstrate that music is equivalent to noise.
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The problem with such AI demos is that they lack a particular purpose (i.e. success criteria), use existing material for training and do not go a step beyond that material. You can take a track and slow it down by a random fraction to get a different pitch and tempo. Viola. "New music." Procedurally generated. But that does not mean you've composed something. You've used a randomized algorithm hand-crated to produce a particular effect. It has no generative power.
I've already given the example of auto tune, loops and synthetic sounds. People care surprisingly little about authenticity and the top charts are telling about the intellectual preferences of the masses. Perhaps an RNN could even be trained with recordings of human emotional responses like heart rate and goosebumps. It's not just about changing the pitch here and there, but learning deep features about what makes music interesting to listen to.
Music doesn't need to be as coherent as a text (in fact some space for interpretation is often preferred), which also increases my confidence about this prediction.
> the music would actually give them the same satisfaction they receive from manmade music
You believe this because...? None of the generated tracks I've heard so far is anywhere near the kind of music people would listen to for the sake of the music itself.
Some people do listen to music to drawn out distracting conversations around them. Perfectly sensible thing to do. However, in those cases music can be replaced with white noise of nature's sounds. This does not demonstrate that music is equivalent to noise.
...
The problem with such AI demos is that they lack a particular purpose (i.e. success criteria), use existing material for training and do not go a step beyond that material. You can take a track and slow it down by a random fraction to get a different pitch and tempo. Viola. "New music." Procedurally generated. But that does not mean you've composed something. You've used a randomized algorithm hand-crated to produce a particular effect. It has no generative power.