Machines, Minds & Music: Navigating Generative AI for Creative Applications

Distinguished Lecturer Seminar

Maya Ackerman

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Machines, Minds & Music: Navigating Generative AI for Creative Applications

Prehistory

• Creative Minds VS Machine

• Core concepts

• Illustrations from musical AI

PREHISTORY OF GENERATIVE AI FOR CREATIVE APPLICATIONS

EMI by David Cope

AARON by Harold Cohen

Creative Machines VS Minds

Made in our own image…

Not better or worse, just different

Machine strengths…

Can learn from vast amounts of data

Machine strengths…

Exploring the creative space

Machine weaknesses… Lack emotion & agency

Machine weaknesses…

Weak cohesion

Core concepts

Convergence VS Divergence

Autonomous AI VS co-creativity

Collective consciousness

Collective unconscious

Biases lurk in the shadows

How

can we

use AI to elevate, rather than diminish, human creativity?

Creative control and autonomy

Illustrations from Musical AI

DIY2 by Curtiss King hit #1 on iTunes Hip Hop Charts

Over a 1,000,000 streams

“Blink of an Eye” by Halfy and Winks

Does AI help write hits?

Let’s make a song with AI

Thank you.

Questions & Answers