Originally Posted by Bass Thumper
Create: To produce, reveal or give rise to something unique or sufficiently dissimilar from that which came before. To bring into being or awareness a novel thing, idea or relationship which did not exist prior. “Create” and “discover” can be very close cousins.

Interesting. Noting that there are only 12 notes (see what I did there?), the case could be made that everything since the people from the Paleolithic Period made tones through bone flutes has been derivative. If Grog the Caveman arranged those notes in a different pattern than what he had heard before, he "created". Now some mathematician could probably calculate the number of combinations of those 12 tones and come up with a huge but finite number. (Google says that number is 479,001,600.) Constrained by that, there could only be 479,001,600 completely unique songs that are not copied yet created, even if somewhat derivative. Is there a way that AI can squeeze out more than that finite number of combinations? Logic would say no. To follow that thought to conclusion, we have to ask if to this point in time there have been more than, less than, or exactly 479,001,600 songs written.

And does it matter is real intelligence (humans) or artificial intelligence (computer models) wrote them? Unless an AI model can be programmed to add inflection, that music that lacked those dynamics that a human performer can add, (I don't know if that is possible) that music would lack character and feeling.

I love this topic! I hope Frank would love it too.

Remember, somebody (Louis Washkansky) was the first human to receive another human's heart and a December day in 1963. That man lived 18 days and did NOT die from a problem with the heart, but from a lung infection and pneumonia. Remember that we now have artificial hearts that act as a bridge while a patient waits for a donor heart. If there can exist an artificial heart, why not "artificial" music?

Remember, in the early days of heart transplants 56 years ago, thinking, sane people wondered if putting a female heart into a male body would result in that man becoming a woman. (Insert your own Bruce Jenner joke here.) There is no evolution in any field without exploration of possibility. If somebody can create a "new' Sinatra song, bring it on. And Beatles fans who can't accept that John Lennon is dead can delude themselves into thinking that Now And Then is really a Beatles song. I didn't like "the song" itself, but I loved the concept and technology that allowed it to be created.

So use AI to bring back Frank, bring back Freddy, bring back John Entwistle, being back Buddy Rich, hell, go back to 1791 and bring back Mozart. Just do it well.