But no, she’s not worried that AI will eventually render human musicians and composers obsolete. And if the day comes when AI does take over music, she says, we’ll all have far bigger worries on our hands. AI, reckons Southern, is simply the next great leap forward in music-making. As Southern put it in her talk on Thursday, Martin is “basically just like a walking AI because he has such incredible pattern recognition for pop music.”“Working with a producer and working with AI are very similar,” she says. Indeed, he views the advent of AI composers in much the same way as Southern; if you’re working with a producer, he or she is doing much the same work.

Source: thestar November 11, 2017 12:00 UTC