Anicet Mbida 6:53 a.m., February 10, 2023
Anicet Mbida delivers to us every morning what is best in terms of innovation.
This Friday, he is interested in the concern of musicians who could lose their jobs because of artificial intelligence.
Definitely, not a week goes by without a new profession being threatened by artificial intelligence. And this morning, it is the musicians who are in the line of fire.
Specifically, those who make arrangements.
When you are a singer or singer, in principle, you arrive with your demo tape at a producer or an arranger.
He listens to it, it inspires him and he composes the best music to accompany us.
Well, he will be able to close up shop!
Hear what artificial intelligence-enhanced software can do.
How it is possible ?
Does it extrapolate from what we sing?
In fact, we made him listen to tens of thousands of hours of songs and the software learned, as we went along, what type of harmony we find most often with this or that type of song.
So he's not inventing anything new.
It only recomposes the most probable type of accompaniment.
This is the principle of all artificial intelligences.
They create nothing.
They are content to skilfully copy/paste what they have been taught.
That's why it works.
Because it reminds us of things we've heard before.
Still, there is something to worry about.
It's not easy to know that it was a machine that composed the music...
No… and that's the problem with artificial intelligence.
Even if she doesn't create anything new, she is already capable of doing as well or even better than many of us.
Moreover, on creative, artistic, intellectual tasks such as composing music or writing a text.
Who knows ?
Tomorrow, maybe she could do a column for me...
It makes you wonder what will be left for us, poor humans that we are.