Jose Oros

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writing music with people it sounds less creative to the average ear what exactly did you find what exactly did you research so um in our study as you as you mentioned uh we're very interested in understanding how this new tools that can create very sophisticated human art like um

do they actually are able to be leveraged by musicians in a way that expand their ideas, expand their horizon of creation?

So what we do in this study is we pretty much give access to a group of participants that have musical training and have piano experience.

We ask them to come in and create music with the aid of AI.

And we're very curious to see then, OK, what's going to happen?

Is the music going to look different from what a human alone would do?

Is the music going to be more creative?

Is it going to have different elements?

So that's what we're studying.

So before I answer that question, I want to just think about, OK, if we think about how these type of systems help or not, in a way, when we think about these generative AI systems,

It's basically, you know, when you have this, it's an idea machine, right?

You can just query it.

You can create things, you know, very quickly with a lot of speed.

So in a way, you can think that you're going to have access to these tools and you're going to find that they, you know, give you a lot of ideas that you can leverage and that should increase your creativity, right?

Precisely.

But there's also this other concept of fixation, right?

And it's studied on the literature and the psychology literature for a long time.

But what this tells you is that, basically, these algorithms, such as the ChatGPT, or specifically the one we're looking at is a text-to-music algorithm.