My name is Wyatt Haas. I study MIS as a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma and have a minor in Jazz Studies. I recently just recorded an album with our jazz ensemble here at OU, and I love everything about music and the arts. The arts are here to help us understand each other, bridge barriers, and improve our lives in ways only humans can understand. This class stuck out to me because the arts give me life and a sense of purpose, and AI is now beginning to take a position in our lives that limits creativity, expression, and identity in our day-to-day lives. I ask myself often if in the future my musical endeavors may soon be unimportant to others, as well as to me. More music seems to be less driven by emotional and humanistic traits and is becoming more monetarily incentivized by large record labels and corporations, and I feel as if AI may only speed this development as it becomes easier to generate music. My identity in this blog will be to observe the development of generative AI in creative fields and things I want to talk about.
the idea of whether human musical endeavors are going to be superseded by ai generated music is something that I haven’t thought about before and I wonder why this isn’t as talked about as other AI related issues. I’d be happy to hear some discussion related to it and I wonder what insight could be provided by someone like you actively involved in the arts
Hey Wyatt, your thought of Ai possibly eclipsing is something really profound, and something I’ve thought of before as well. Something I’ve noticed in the music industry is that it is often pushed by incentives and monetary value rather then genuine creativity and the true character of the artist. As someone who appreciates art, I’ll be nice to see where you go with this idea.
Aha! You already have a conversation going–excellent…
I want to throw one idea out there, based on these initial meditations. The “A” in “AI” stands for “artificial,” and it strikes me that many long-running conversations about popular music have to do with what counts as artificial and why many people prefer what seems to be the OPPOSITE of artificial (lots of possible words could be used here….)
I’m exited to see where this blog will go!