Readings/Listenings for Tuesday, 24 March and Thursdsay, 26 March
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Listen to this segment: Musical DNA (RadioLab, 19 August 2010). (If you really want to read instead, there is a transcript, but you will miss a lot that is in the podcast.)
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David Cope, Facing the Music: Perspectives on Machine-Composed Music. Leonardo Music Journal, 1999. (Unless you are double majoring in music, you are not expected to read Appendix A.)
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Ted Chiang, Why A.I. Isn’t Going To Make Art, The New Yorker, 31 August 2024. [PDF] [Web Link]
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Douglas Hofstadter organized a symposium on AI and creativity in 1997. You can see all 15 videos here: https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/sq87bz201. There are talks on “Chess and Go”, “Language and Literature”, “Jokes and Humor”, “Musical Composition” (7 talks) and “The Big Picture”. I think you’ll find interesting and enlightening material in all of the vidoes (at least based on the subset I have sampled; I haven’t watched them all). You can choose any of the videos you want based on your interests. Hopefully you’ll find the one you choose (or switch if you don’t!) interesting and will want to watch the whole video, but its not necessary to watch the entire video, just to find something interesting, funny, or surprising in it and post a comment about it (including a link to the video and timestamp where you found it) in the discussion forum.
I encourage you to plan your time for all the readings for the week how it works best for you, but to make sure to at least listen to the RadioLab podcast and read the David Cope article before Tuesday’s class, and to post your discussion comment on the video from the symposium by Wednesday noon for the lead team has time to look at these before Thursday’s class.