Did Beethoven write it?

Ludwig van Beethoven’s unfinished symphony is the latest to be given a helping hand by AI.

“The AI needed to learn how to bridge two sections of music together.

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The AI Revolution

AI technologies have begun complementing human creative work in recent years.

“We can also synthetically generate faces, change facial characteristics, re-stylize images, etc.”

But when AI produces images or music,is it actually being creative?

Homebuilt robot playing guitar in front of concrete wall - Artificial intelligence concept

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“That depends on how you define creativity,” Thomas said.

“If you consider creativity to be solely a human capacity, then AI can’t be creative.”

Human creativity, however, involves a lot more grunt work than we often imagine, Thomas pointed out.

The future is likely to bring AI collaboration with humans rather than replacing them, experts said.

“This means that we are both uniquely skilled to perform very different sets of tasks.