Argumentative Paper: Artificial Intelligence in Music There is something about music that seems inherently human. It can make people cry or laugh; jerk their bodies or stop them in awe; and even motivate them or put them to sleep. For the most part, humans have been the only ones to create and use music for recreational use for millennia (Armony and Vuilleumier, 2013). With that being said, it is difficult to imagine music being made by anything else. Truly powerful, moving music, not simply a series of pitches and rhythms. Great composers like Chopin, and countless others, are so endeared in their fields because they were all able to produce something in a way that could not be imitated (Zander, 2008). Such composers are able to take the
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Turing mentions that machines are not able to partake in certain human activities like humor, love, morality, or enjoyment. He the example that a machine cannot enjoy strawberries and cream on its own, it can only be programmed to do so (Turing, 1973). This raises the question of how and why humans can enjoy such things in the first place. In the early development of Earth, during the Reptile Age, the thalamus was developed in the brains of organisms. The thalamus is the part of the brain that deals with instinct. This includes automatic movement, like walking, and reactions, like avoiding danger or self defense. This began with the sense of smell. The thalamus would register the scents of poison, predators, or food and relate that to an instinct. When mammals came into existence, more and more layers were added to the thalamus to produce the limbic system: the system that feels pleasure and sexual desire. This then lead to the development of the neocortex. This part of the brain allowed the first humanoid creatures to feel love (Martínez-Miranda and Aldea, …show more content…
First of all, it shows how much humans value the arts, especially music. The fact that musicians are worried about losing their jobs to robots demonstrates a certain love for the music itself in its purest form (Neely, 2013). No matter how complex the algorithms, the works of Mozart and Beethoven can not yet be topped by artificial intelligence (Hochberg, 2014). At the same time, advancements that are being made in robotic music have a place in the industry without replacing human musicians (Neely, 2013). This shows that while humans value traditional ways, they are always looking for new ways of doing things. This is especially helpful in art as art continuously aims for originality. Another, somewhat negative, characteristic that automated music brings up is the fact that people often submit to immediate, surface-level pleasures. Thousands of people gathered to see Compressorhead at a music festival in Australia (Neely, 2013). Maybe they were so interested because of society’s recent romanticization of robots, but there is a chance that the musicians playing the music wasn’t as important to them as the loud, fast noise coming from the machines. The “average” human being may not be able to tell the difference between emotionally driven music in contrast with machine made music. This is a problem not only with technology, but with society as well (Abouhassan, 2016). Most people settle for half-witted,
Turing mentions that machines are not able to partake in certain human activities like humor, love, morality, or enjoyment. He the example that a machine cannot enjoy strawberries and cream on its own, it can only be programmed to do so (Turing, 1973). This raises the question of how and why humans can enjoy such things in the first place. In the early development of Earth, during the Reptile Age, the thalamus was developed in the brains of organisms. The thalamus is the part of the brain that deals with instinct. This includes automatic movement, like walking, and reactions, like avoiding danger or self defense. This began with the sense of smell. The thalamus would register the scents of poison, predators, or food and relate that to an instinct. When mammals came into existence, more and more layers were added to the thalamus to produce the limbic system: the system that feels pleasure and sexual desire. This then lead to the development of the neocortex. This part of the brain allowed the first humanoid creatures to feel love (Martínez-Miranda and Aldea, …show more content…
First of all, it shows how much humans value the arts, especially music. The fact that musicians are worried about losing their jobs to robots demonstrates a certain love for the music itself in its purest form (Neely, 2013). No matter how complex the algorithms, the works of Mozart and Beethoven can not yet be topped by artificial intelligence (Hochberg, 2014). At the same time, advancements that are being made in robotic music have a place in the industry without replacing human musicians (Neely, 2013). This shows that while humans value traditional ways, they are always looking for new ways of doing things. This is especially helpful in art as art continuously aims for originality. Another, somewhat negative, characteristic that automated music brings up is the fact that people often submit to immediate, surface-level pleasures. Thousands of people gathered to see Compressorhead at a music festival in Australia (Neely, 2013). Maybe they were so interested because of society’s recent romanticization of robots, but there is a chance that the musicians playing the music wasn’t as important to them as the loud, fast noise coming from the machines. The “average” human being may not be able to tell the difference between emotionally driven music in contrast with machine made music. This is a problem not only with technology, but with society as well (Abouhassan, 2016). Most people settle for half-witted,