will artificial intelligence replace artists?

What if Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony had been imagined by a computer or if the creativity of the Rolling Stones came down to a mathematical formula? Researchers are wondering if artificial intelligence will be able to do without artists and compose music on its own. In an almost secret fundamental research laboratory, engineers do not write partitions but equations or algorithms.

They work on mathematics to produce sounds. The engineers create a melody on the piano and record it in the machine. They then ask the computer to replace a part and the software composes on its own, inspired by the starting site. “This artificial intelligence, she is very good in musical theory but she doesn’t necessarily have an ear or at least she has no notion of taste to then sort through all these proposals. It is the artist who will put his mark and personalize all these recommendations“, believes Cyran Aouameurresearch engineer.