I couldn’t agree more. We have very little basis to judge whether the algorithm did Beethoven justice and so all the celebration is really for a non-event. A computer wrote down notes after other notes. Maybe they sound not too dissonant. That’s not news.
This statement feels too strong. An algorithm completed Beethoven's tenth symphony, and it did a passable job, maybe better than what a graduate student could achieve. That's exciting for tool-assisted composition, even if it tells us nothing about Beethoven's historical vision for the symphony.
Agree! This is great and exciting. When people learn to play music composed by someone else, they are experiencing/living to some degree the mind of the composer. And music can fairly be described as sets of repeatable patterns. So if AI can take the entirety of a composer's life's work and discern key patterns, replicate them even, then some aspect of the mind of the composer is reborn. This is immortality. A dedicated grad student could probably do it for one composer; AI can do it for ALL composers. And humanity is all the better for it :)