AI as a Tool
Les Paul sitting at his Console, 1958 AI won't change music like multi-track recording or MIDI did. Tools assist creativity, they don't eliminate it. To the extent that tools are also machines (as AI is a machine) it could smooth out the rough edges of "hand tools"; Tools are also a work-in-progress, and improvements in the tools used in creativity make innovation more of a possibility (simply by creating automatic action chains), but you always get the same results--like strictly following a recipe. When we are doing something truly creative, the action chains are more organic. Constraints (imperfections) in tools (or simply collecting tools) potentially stop the free flow in creativity. Or we embrace the constraints (and the pursuit of more tools) and make something by workaround (which I prefer). The question then becomes do we put all of our creative energy in tool-creation and refinements, then get on with the separate business of creative production, i.e. the c...
