So when is AI going to do useful work no one wants to do instead of doing the art people enjoy doing.
I would love to use a music model that could help me do that.
I’m imagining feeding it my score and then iterating with it to create the final piece I’ve had stuck in my head all this time.
I think you might be referring to "Muzak", a particular brand of background music that would sell to businesses to play in stores and elevators.
In my experience, today's AI is more than thrilled to do your extra busy work, one just needs to learn how to ask.
A better example of the problem imo is the robot advertised to watch your kids so you can work.
Some people will, but for me, I could never justify spending time and money to learn something an AI could do better than me. I'd constantly feel like I'm wasting my time.
AI is a tool intended on increasing efficiency. The way you describe the act of making art/crafting things seems to come through the lens of efficiency, where you're wasting your time in the struggle of improvement.
The time spent struggling is not time wasted. The struggle is the single most important aspect of learning and improving. Its how lessons learned reach the deep subconscious as if you're walking or writing with a pen. No good musician, painter, sculptor, systems engineer, etc became that way without that deep struggle. If someone says they never struggled, be wary of them.
If we round off every corner in the name of efficiency and the bottom line, all we're left with is toil. We don't benefit from that toil, the people who push for greater and greater efficiency do. No matter how efficient we get, the excesses produced by the efficiencies will be guarded. Food thrown away, excess milk dumped in the dirt, crops burned, profits stowed away.
The AI can only exist via previous struggle. The music produced by AI will only ever be a shadow of Human struggle. It will never truly exceed that struggle. A series of vectors in memory on a graphics card can't know the feeling of a beat as it resounds in ones chest, or the resolution of a chord as the bridge turns around. It can't know the sympathetic emotions of a story told in lyrics. It can't know the nostalgia evoked by a shadow in a painting, or the familiarity of an expression in a face.
Only we as humans can create this, and its sad and disgusting to see these tools used to degrade the human experience for an ounce of profit by people who refuse to allow themselves to understand the struggle of creating art.
Your example is good though, "why raise my children when a robot can do it for me, so I can survive using my energy for someone else".
Exactly why we ask what’s the point of the tool then?
Like I get it, “helps experienced creators become even better yadda yadda” but I’m directly refuting the argument re: target market