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北师大英语·必修第三册
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北师大英语·必修第三册
导语:你可能认为创造力和艺术判断力是人类区别于人工智能(AI)的地方。机器人在开始创造杰作很久之前就会清洗我们的窗户了,对吗?
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北师大英语·必修第三册
You may think that creativity and artistic judgment are what set humans apart from Artificial Intelligence (AI). Robots will be washing our windows long before they start creating masterpieces, right?
Not necessarily. At Amper Music, you can make the music you want based on mood, instrument, speed and length. You click “Render”, and boom! There's your original piece, not only composed but also “performed” and “mixed” by AI software.
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But something has kept bothering me:What happens in a world where effort and scarcity (稀缺) are no longer part of the definition of art? A massproduced print of the Mona Lisa is worth less than the actual Leonardo painting. Why? Scarcity—there's only one of the original.But Amper turns professionalquality original piece of music every time you click “Render”. It puts us in a strange world where works of art are unique but require almost zero human effort to produce.Should anyone pay for these things? And if an artist puts AI masterpieces up for sale,what should the price be?
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That's not just a thought experiment either.Soon the question “What's the value of AI artwork and music?” will start impacting fleshandblood consumers. It has already, in fact.
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Earlier,reporters discovered something suspicious about many playlists of Spotify—another online music service. According to the report, the composers and bands who wrote the songs appeared to be nonexistent.These playlists have names like Peaceful Piano and Ambient Chill—exactly the kind of music AI software is good at.
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Is Spotify using software to compose music to avoid paying fees to human musicians? The New York Times reported that the tracks with false names have been played 500 million times, which would ordinarily have cost Spotify $3 million in paym