> Attributing music to a computer explicitly would be purely marketing move and it doesn’t change the fact that author is always conscious being(s), which, unless we’re in singularity, a computer isn’t.
I don't know. I'm sympathetic to this view (and for the record, I wasn't going anywhere near a hard AI/singularity argument), but on the other hand, I think after enough iterations you won't be able to find where that human input actually comes in. When we finally get a NN that produces something actually great, will we be able to point to a specific line of code, or a specific input, or a specific programmer whose taste resulted in that? We already struggle to understand the inner workings of neural nets.
So you can argue the 'taste' step comes into the selection process. Somebody has to sift through the output of the NN to choose what's good and what isn't. But what if that's automated? A different output to a different member of the population, so then the NN can test itself, and it decides what is worthy of output on a larger scale? Then you can't point to any one individual either.
So it's a semantic point. I think you're right, fundamentally. But I think we can very quickly reach a point where we have to travel through a very long rabbit hole to get back to that key human influence.
I don't know. I'm sympathetic to this view (and for the record, I wasn't going anywhere near a hard AI/singularity argument), but on the other hand, I think after enough iterations you won't be able to find where that human input actually comes in. When we finally get a NN that produces something actually great, will we be able to point to a specific line of code, or a specific input, or a specific programmer whose taste resulted in that? We already struggle to understand the inner workings of neural nets.
So you can argue the 'taste' step comes into the selection process. Somebody has to sift through the output of the NN to choose what's good and what isn't. But what if that's automated? A different output to a different member of the population, so then the NN can test itself, and it decides what is worthy of output on a larger scale? Then you can't point to any one individual either.
So it's a semantic point. I think you're right, fundamentally. But I think we can very quickly reach a point where we have to travel through a very long rabbit hole to get back to that key human influence.