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    Can AI Rock?

    I usually don’t ask my AI friend, “Q” for help in writing a blog. I like to write the old-fashioned way, with all the warts and imperfections that come from being human. But, as a musician, I’ve been wondering: Can AI rock when it creates music? Can AI swing when it makes a song? I started my research on this by asking Q what it thought about the blog title. Here’s its response: “Great question—and it’s a good blog title, Jim. Concise, provocative, slightly playful.” Well, that’s an encouraging start, and Q has already dropped an em dash into the conversation. 😉 Q continued… “Short answer (the one I’d put…

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    Artificial Intelligence for the Human Creative

    One of the benefits of computer artificial intelligence (AI) is that it gathers together the collected knowledge of the computers that have come before it. AI comes pre-loaded with any knowledge we want to place in it. In addition, AI tests, learns and grows. It constantly takes the information it, and other computers has learned and integrates that knowledge into its memory and algorithms. So, what does this have to do with human creativity?Well, it turns out these same two benefits apply to creatives. First, you have as much access as you want to the creative work that has gone before you. Although you can’t experience everything that has flowed…