Music from the beyond - A bad case of AI

If you thought hologram artists performing live from beyond the grave was creepy, wait'll you get a load of the music that has been making their rounds on the internet. 

 

I would argue that no machine could ever come close to the magnificence that was Freddy's vocal instrument - but you have to admit this AI generated cover does come darn close.

The acceleration of AI has gotten a lot of folks in a right tizzy. I mean, it might've been easy to brush this off as yet another example of alarmist nonsense the way the Y2K (yes, I'm that old) panic once was. And does anyone even remember the whole kerfuffle about the Industrial Revolution 3.0 (that is to say of the time when human work is replaced with intelligent machines, programs, and algorithms that partially performed the work, making it faster and more efficient). If anyone has ever been to any government service counter, I'd argue IR3.0 couldn't come fast enough - but that's not the case that we're looking at here.

No. I'm thinking about the threat (or promise) that AI currently poses to the one domain that once seemed to be the sole purview of sentient beings including we the people. If AI can be used to generate fiction, paintings, sculptures, and even resurrect dearly departed musicians from beyond the grave, what use is there for human creativity any more? While we wait to see where exactly this will take us, the only thing I can think of is to urge all of us to be ever more supportive of the arts than we have been before.