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

Nick Cave · 23 Jan 2019 · theredhandfiles.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    A sense of awe depends on the limits of the person who made the thing, so unlimited potential has nothing left to transcend.

    Their wordsA sense of awe is almost exclusively predicated on our limitations as human beings. It is entirely to do with our audacity as humans to reach beyond our potential.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    What moves a listener is not the song alone but a human being straining against their own limits, which is why a machine can write a good song and never a great one.

    Their wordsWhat 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.
    Interesting