Write a String Quartet? There’s a Program for That
A few years from now, as you take your seat in a concert hall, you might open your program and find a puzzling announcement: Tonight we’ll be hearing works by André Previn, Henry Purcell, and Hewlett Packard.
An annoying example of product placement? Actually, it could be an accurate, if incomplete, indicator of authorship.
And without that notification, we might never know the difference.
Most of us like to think we could easily differentiate between a piece of music written by a human being and one generated by a computer. But a paper just presented at the International Conference on Computational Creativity 2012 suggests otherwise.