Re: Simon and Newell's classic AI predictions

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Oct 07 1997 - 04:24:57 MDT


Gregory Sullivan <sullivan@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> writes:

> 3. That within ten years a digital computer will write music that will be
> accepted by critics as possessing considerable aesthetic value.
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> Maybe some list member will know about a match or partial match for
> prediction three.

What about David Cope's EMI system?
(see http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/home)
It is probably best described as computer assisted composition, but
it is not unlikely that it could fool at least some people at a
"musical Turing test".

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