There’s a good article by Ted Chiang in The Atlantic, about what artificial intelligence, especially in the form of Large Language Models, is and is not. In particular, he maintains that it isn’t conscious, and cannot be a moral agent, contrary to the impressions which an AI’s verbal output may create.

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I read an article mentioning AI-generated pop music; apparently, AI can generate formulaic pop music, which, if not great, isn’t worse than similar music composed by humans. There is an issue, it seems, with the people owning the AI collecting royalties because (I am not giving any advice about intellectual property) you’re only supposed to obtain a copyright on something which you created, not something which a computer created.

It got me thinking: could a more advanced AI generate cantatas and organ fugues which sounded just as if they had been composed by J.S. Bach? Symphonies that Beethoven didn’t get around to writing, but which could have been his work? If we find the music beautiful, would it matter that it was the product of a neural network or a set of algorithms, instead of a man of genius?

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