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Music has been helping us stay together even as we stay apart, from window serenades to video conference concerts. It is hard to imagine we will ever have a shortage of music making, not to mention the decades of existing music recordings. So we don’t need to train computers to make new music for us, but of course that hasn’t stopped us. We don’t do it so that they can replace us, we do it so we can better understand the music we make and what makes it appealing. And whether it is the intention or not, I think teaching our machines to make a joyful noise is just as worthy as making those sounds ourselves.
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