To make that claim, we’d have to have one or more humans who sat down with David Cope and tried to make the music that he wanted, and failed. I don’t think David Cope himself counts, because he has written music “by hand” also, and I don’t think he regards it as a failure.
Re EMI/Emmy, it’s clearer: the pieces it produced in the style of (say) Beethoven are not better than would be written by a typical human composer attempting the same task.
Now would be a good time for me to acknowledge/recall that my disagreement on this doesn’t take away from the original point—computers are better than humans on many narrow domains.
To make that claim, we’d have to have one or more humans who sat down with David Cope and tried to make the music that he wanted, and failed. I don’t think David Cope himself counts, because he has written music “by hand” also, and I don’t think he regards it as a failure.
Re EMI/Emmy, it’s clearer: the pieces it produced in the style of (say) Beethoven are not better than would be written by a typical human composer attempting the same task.
Now would be a good time for me to acknowledge/recall that my disagreement on this doesn’t take away from the original point—computers are better than humans on many narrow domains.