Jose Oros

So there are different ways you think about creativity.

Some people study it as a verb and some people study it as a noun, right?

So it's like a creative process that will be more related to a verb.

But in our case, we're looking at more on the sense of a noun that, you know, the verb

the piece itself, in this case the music itself, we're actually thinking of it as, you know, people have this construct of what is creativity, and we're not telling you what creativity is, we're just, you know, letting you choose if this is something creative based on whatever framework you have around it.

And this is like something that's, you know, widely used in the literature to study this kind of questions where you have like this very abstract and sometimes subjective concepts.

I think so.

Honestly, when we had these participants come in, and even now, we had the participants, the musicians come in to create the melodies, and they had a mixed reaction of they are in awe of what this technology can do right now.

They're also wary and scared.

of what they listened to in terms of like, this is better than I thought.

And that's something that it was also my own experience.

But something that resonated with me and something that I've also been thinking about is it's going back to that concept that music is something that is uniquely human.

And I really like how one of the participants put it, it's human expression.

these AI tools, we find a way to collaborate with them and create things that, you know, there are new sounds, new people that are entering and creating this music that, you know, otherwise would not be able to.

So I'm hopeful that we can maximize benefits while, you know, reducing the harm.

So in our study, as you mentioned, we're very interested in understanding how these new tools that can create very sophisticated human art, like, 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?