Originally Posted By: Planobilly
Just because AI may be able to generate guitar tracks does not entice me to stop playing guitar.


I selected only this point to comment on.

Mario was right on about the fact that PG products ARE really AI at some level. You give it a style and some chords and it spits out music.

Billy made an important observation. AI won't influence me to stop playing. My diminished skills have influenced me to stop playing. If Real band can make music better than I can (and at this point it's not even close) then I will use the music Real Band makes rather than what I can do myself.

What gets lost in the shuffle of this topic is this.

It's still MY input, MY composition, MY lyrics, MY soul that tells any music generating product to create. And I get to make it do that process again and again until I like it. I am working on a cover of a song by The Cure for Herbstock that has so far seen me generate the basic song, render those to WAV files, start over, generate again, render to WAV again, keep some of the old, add some of the new, and so on.

BIAB, RB, Garage Band, any form of AI, they are just tools. HUMANS ad the "code", the instruction set that makes those tools work the way we want them to. One definition of artificial is "a copy or imitation of something real". So is it really ARTIFICIAL intelligence? The end product is real music, written by human instruction with computer coded instruction produced by HUMAN intelligence.

Love this kind of discussion!!! Nerdvana!

Last edited by eddie1261; 02/16/23 04:53 AM.