Artificial intelligence (AI) helps complete music by famous composers.
AI will not replace musicians: creativity remains human
Ludwig van Beethoven’s unfinished symphony is the latest to get a helping hand from AI. A startup taught an AI Beethoven’s work and his creative process to finish the music, but the move raises the question of where the human labor ends and the computer’s handiwork begins.
“I think the real short- to medium-term potential for AI is that it will complement our own creative efforts, not necessarily replace our own creative output as humans,” Kelland Thomas, the dean of the College of Arts and Letters and a professor of music and technology at Stevens Institute of Technology, told Lifewire in an email interview. “AI tools might be able to recognize what we’re trying to solve and suggest different interesting solutions that we can choose from.”
Beethoven's unfinished symphony has long frustrated music lovers, but the company Playform AI took on the challenge and used computers to finish the work.
