All of this is so interesting. I use AI for artwork. I can have Einstein and my favorite Zen Master, Dogen, sitting on a Sherman tank discussing ... something.

But I would never ever use AI to write a single line. That would revolt me.

When you write, the words are just ciphers, to express out loud that deeper sense of soul, or whatever you want to call it.

AI does not have a muse.

AI does not have a muse.

Even if we did have 900 Beethoven symphonies, as someone else mentioned, it wouldn't - in your sense of what's what - add that.

It's statistical pattern matching. It won't invent anything new, as the author in this article so well puts.

Just out of curiosity, I just went to Youtube to find some AI Swing. Like everything else AI, it was passible, but that sneaky sense of no subject, no one's actually home, was there, too.

Could AI create the invention, the invention!, of Swing out of 1920s jazz, still often with that banjo?

No. Of course not.

But shit! Now I have to go back to Youtube to see if there's any AI Louis Armstrong. I just hope there's no Stride Piano. James P. Johnson told me he'd never send me any sheet music again.

And I value his friendship too much for that.