Making human music in an AI world

Ge Wang doesn’t usage computers to marque euphony the mode astir radical usage computers marque music. He uses computers to make... machine music. Wang works astatine Stanford, arsenic an subordinate prof successful the Center for Computer Research successful Music and Acoustics. He besides conducts the school’s famed Laptop Orchestra, was a co-founder of the euphony app shaper Smule, and created a programming connection called Chuck that turns codification into sound. He understands however computers, music, and humans interact much profoundly than most. He besides has immoderate ideas astir wherever it’s each headed.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, the 3rd and past successful our mini-series astir the aboriginal of music, we chat with Wang astir what’s adjacent for machine music. He tells america astir teaching his students to play with exertion alternatively than trying to maestro it, and however instrumentality makers should beryllium approaching their enactment successful a clip of AI.

This speech goes immoderate unexpected and heavy places, arsenic truthful galore conversations astir AI thin to. We speech a batch astir what it means to beryllium creative, and adjacent human, successful a satellite filled with exertion meant to marque everything much efficient, little complicated, and much homogenous.

Whether you’re penning an email oregon a symphony, there’s a instrumentality retired determination designed to marque it easier. But is easier the goal? And if it’s not, however bash we sphere each the things that marque the hard enactment worthy doing? What are we, the humans, adjacent present for anymore? Like I said, it got deep. But we enjoyed it, and we deliberation you volition too.

If you privation to cognize much astir Ge and his work, present are immoderate links to get you started: