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Making human music in an AI world

2024/11/17
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Ge Wang认为,在AI时代,我们不应仅仅将技术视为提高效率的工具,而更应将其视为一种乐器,一种拓展人类创造力和表达力的媒介。他强调了“与AI玩耍”的重要性,即探索AI的各种可能性,并将其融入到人类的互动和创作中。他还指出,技术的便利性也可能带来负面影响,例如工作量的增加和文化产品的同质化。因此,AI的发展应该以提升人类福祉为目标,鼓励多元化,并探索更多样化的人机交互方式,最终帮助人们更好地表达自我、感受自我。

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Ge Wang discusses his unique approach to computer music, which involves playful and exploratory interactions with technology, and his journey from founding Smule to conducting the Stanford Laptop Orchestra.
  • Ge Wang founded Smule, a company known for music-based apps like Ocarina and Magic Piano.
  • He created the ChucK programming language for music synthesis.
  • Ge conducts the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, which uses laptops and gadgets to create unique music.

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For the third episode in our series about the future of music, we talk with Ge Wang. Ge is a professor at Stanford, a co-founder of Smule, the conductor of Stanford’s laptop orchestra, and has been at the center of technology and artistry for most of his life. We talk about how humans can use AI without giving in to it, what it means to truly play with technology, and the value of art and creativity and friction when it feels like all those things are being taken away.

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