About what would make AI-generated music performance convincing to musicians.
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Yes 32 (30%)Not sure 42 (40%)No 31 (30%)
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About what would make AI-generated music performance convincing to musicians.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
What do you mean by "better"
More convincing/realistic musical performance. Imagine there was a "Turing test" for music composition and performance and the goal was to convince a trained musician that the performer behind the curtain was a true human being, not a robot.
There is a market for "band-in-a-box"
Right, and the tool became much better since they use "real tracks", i.e. played by real musicians; I suppose in future these can be complemented by tracks generated by connectionist models like the ones used by MuseNet et al.
see something like Curtis Roads CMT for a historical overview of paradigms.
See also Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation -- A Survey: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01620
and Algorithmic Composition - Paradigms of Automated Music Generation: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-211-75540-2