![]() Songwriters (or any of us) can rest easy: human creativity isn’t about to be totally replaced by machines. ![]() “And after all this it spat out reams and reams of nonsense,” Higgs chuckles. The process took an age, during which time Higgs sent Hanslip various prompts to give the gizmo. ![]() “Then I threw Confucius in as well, for a philosophical veneer.” “Then I wanted something completely opposite, which was Beowulf, one of the oldest English poems.” The “dangerous, toxic, modern stuff” came courtesy of 400,000 comments from the internet forum 4chan, downloaded as a block. “I wanted something really corporate, so I gave him LinkedIn’s terms and conditions,” he says. Higgs asked: “If I send you the data, can you feed it into your machine?”īecause Higgs’ lyrics tend to mix what he describes as “cold technology, modern toxicity, ancient myths and an element of prophecy”, he gave Hanslip an array of such raw data, drawn from extremes of human existence. ![]() The most intriguing reply came from Mark Hanslip, a musician and researcher at the University of York’s Contemporary Music Research Centre. Curious, he used social media to ask people working in machine learning to get in touch. “That’s one step away from what I do,” he thought. The singer was fascinated to read about how AI was being used to create poetry. ![]()
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