SmoothOperator
Gold Member
One of the milestones in Artificial Intelligence has been this program, AlphaGo that beat all of the top Go players, the last and possibly most complex game strategy game yo be conquered by computers.
Something very peculiar happened in the Go playing community, in that instead of killing interest, AlphaGo actually increased interest in the game. Kids that were normally playing video games were showing up at the local clubs and the board games were selling out.
I'm wondering if an AI program that could really play music and interact with musicians, would increase interest in hood old fashioned music playing.
I think what is missing is some sort of test for AI to be deemed as good. I am thinking that some sort of Turing test where either a human or AI musician would be obscured with a feed of both music and video, and from this observers would need to determine which sounds better the AI or the human.
Any thoughts? Part of the reason AlphaGo was so successful as compared to the chess programs, was that AlphaGo was deemed to be creative and came up with whole new lines of play, whereas the chess programs were a reverse engineering of what professionals knew anyway(more or less).
Something very peculiar happened in the Go playing community, in that instead of killing interest, AlphaGo actually increased interest in the game. Kids that were normally playing video games were showing up at the local clubs and the board games were selling out.
I'm wondering if an AI program that could really play music and interact with musicians, would increase interest in hood old fashioned music playing.
I think what is missing is some sort of test for AI to be deemed as good. I am thinking that some sort of Turing test where either a human or AI musician would be obscured with a feed of both music and video, and from this observers would need to determine which sounds better the AI or the human.
Any thoughts? Part of the reason AlphaGo was so successful as compared to the chess programs, was that AlphaGo was deemed to be creative and came up with whole new lines of play, whereas the chess programs were a reverse engineering of what professionals knew anyway(more or less).