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Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
An anonymous reader writes "UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor David Cope's software, nicknamed Emmy, creates beautiful original music. So why are people so angry about that? From the article: 'Cope attracted praise from musicians and computer scientists, but his creation raised troubling questions: If a machine could write a Mozart sonata every bit as good as the originals, then what was so special about Mozart? And was there really any soul behind the great works, or were Beethoven and his ilk just clever mathematical manipulators of notes?'"
Music follows a set of rules.
As does law, but law also follows the golden rule of plutocracy: he who has the gold makes the rules.
There absolutely isn't any reason why a computer program can't take a modern tune and play it following the same tonal styles as Mozart.
There is one: copyright.
People are quite disturbed by atheism and the very idea that their faith and feelings or spirituality might be an illusion of sensations located in a particular area of the brain. Many of us want to believe we are more than we are and simply cannot accept some basic realities of existence.
Oh c'mon that was funny, goddammit.
Brett: Binary solo! ...
Germaine: 00011 001 00011 001 0 0 0 1 00 1 0 1 0
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I think this post sounded a lot better in my head...
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