I bumped into Suno AI today and played around with it a bit. I tried giving it a few prompts for EDM and it simply killed it. Not in the sense that the songs were actually working properly, but even with all their flaws, they were pretty much better than 99% of what's out there made by humans.
This reminded me of the status of machine learning a few years ago when computers alone could detect cancer with 90% accuracy from x-rays, human doctors 80% accuracy and combining humans and computers led to 95% accuracy. The percentages aren't correct but points to the gist of it. If I remember correctly, now machines alone have surpassed the combined effort of humans and machines in these use cases. There are other similar examples from chess, poker etc. where at one point computers were inferior, then combining humans with computers became superior and then computers alone became superior.
So then I thought that what Suno AI produces just needs a human hand to make the stuff it produces really good. How that would be done is a topic for another day, but then that points to the status of these AI tools being in the middle state described above. This probably is applicable to many other current AI solutions too where humans are needed to fix the output. But I believe eventually the machines will surpass us in this field of creativity too.
Which leads to my question: is creativity actually this huge sign of human exceptionalism we've been thinking it is and AI having caught up with humans (or soon to be) is another proof of human ingenuity? Or is creativity just meh and has never been anything really special, and us thinking it was, was just a sign of our hubris and ego? After all, machines can be creative too...
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