AI

"We should be talking much more about how AI affects our capabilities in critical thinking (or thinking in general) and how we are able to assess whether the information surrounding us is true or false", writes Lasse Lehtonen.

The development of artificial intelligence has seen the introduction of several different paradigms, the latest often superseding its predecessor. In the current millennium, the improvements in the accuracy of artificial intelligence applications have rendered them usable for a range of tasks that were previously considered challenging for a machine, such as image and speech recognition.

How is AI impacting the music industry? Three experts from Finland tell us it will shake our fundamental assumptions about artists’ identities, their unique creative visions and relationships with listeners.

Ano Sirppiniemi (Senior Advisor, Technology and Foresight at the Finnish performance rights organization Teosto) and Ville Hytönen (Chair of the Union of Finnish Writers) met and talked about the opportunities offered and threats posed by artificial intelligence in the spheres of music and literature. Sirppiniemi is involved in AI adoption at Teosto, as well as evaluating the impact of AI on music authors, publishers, and the music industry as a whole, and Hytönen has been actively involved with a similar evaluation in the field of literature. What common topics and concerns do these two fields share, and in what ways do they diverge?

Your friends on social media are not your friends; they are just people who are notified of updates to your account. Similarly, artificial intelligence is not intelligence; the term is a label for computational models of inductive reasoning.

Have you ever listened to music created by artificial intelligence? Here are some recommendations to explore. These compositions raise intriguing questions: what defines the essence of live performance, contributing to a more human outcome? How might a non-human performance unfold? Will our perception of the music change when we’re aware it was composed by an AI rather than a human? How can we know that these works have been generated by an AI without human intervention?