Thanks for your insights, Tony. Always interesting to hear from someone so knowledgeable about the industry from the inside. I'm a neuroscientist who has made my living for 30 years studying human brain function. I agree with you about human nature (and its tendencies toward entropy). I am well versed in the technical, computational aspects of AI (having developed methods myself that I've used in neural research), and I don't believe like many seem to now that AI will end human life; humans are entirely capable of doing that with or without AI. And one reason AI is a threat to replacing humans in making modern music is precisely because humans have embraced and made popular so much music that is superficial, shallow, style-over-substance, boring, predictable, conformist, and cliche. These characteristics are exactly what machine learning and neural network models can most easily mimic. Know what they can't mimic easily? Novel, idiosyncratic aspects of music that aren't well represented in their training data. All the more reason for people making music to work harder at it and make music that is different from other music. Finally, I have done research on the topic and do believe that young people's attention spans are shortening, and their mental discipline is suffering. The brain becomes what you spend time doing. If you spend lots of time switching channels after 10 seconds of boredom and taking creative shortcuts without struggling your cerebral functional organization will adapt such that you can no longer attend for longer than that. As my King Crimson t-shirt says, discipline is a vehicle for joy. Cheers.
Really fantastic video, Tony. I’d love to continue to hear your thoughts on ai as the technology progresses and we see it more and more in all creative fields. Feeling like this applies to all creative mediums currently going through ai booms. Especially photography! Cheers from Iowa.
I like your "if you could click a few buttons and it' done would you do it, if you solved a rubics cube and know the trick do you pick it up again to challenge yourself" But I did discoer a very crazy thing much like rubics cubes and gammers have Speed Runs, where they try complete it at the fastest time possible. Well... Now I've seen music producing speedruns. People are re-creating songs at ridiculous speeds. (I don't know if people do this for original content) but yeah, I guess some people do carry on just to see HOW fast they can get.
Cutting my teeth in the industry in the mid 70's, disappointment in the process of recording started in the mid 90's with auto tune, it started with what we thought was a great tech called sampling, Well at the time, I was on board 100 percent, I believe in technology and am excited to see where it ends up by the time I call it quits, but looking back, the organic beauty of an artist creating something with raw application and with what they alone are capable of, not to say some of the things that came from all this tech wasn't amazing, but the days of of that purity is all but gone, not trying to sound like an old geezer ( although I am ) For instance, if you went to a tournament that features weight lifting, and one of the contestants brings a floor jack to help him compete, well how is that competition ? interested in your thoughts ?
I'm not sure we knew how good it was when we lived it...but I do see it now. No way to argue with the longevity of the art from the 60's, 70's and yes even the 80's. I tried to explain in the video that I see a lack artistic stamina with the new crew that I've worked with and witness...artists no longer live to stay in the studio for days, sleep in vans, or do anything with a longterm commitment.
I watch each video and comment as well…I will make the argument that he’s wrong …THE END 😂and sometimes I have more to say so there’s a second and third comment …just saying…💯
Enjoying your channel, Shorts/Reels/Tiktok are 100% Crack/Cocaine for the brain. I'm from the 90's and yeah I played Mario, Resident Evil and all that for hours and was told it would destroy my brain. But I also didn't have internet until I was well in my late teens. In the last couple of years I found myself feeling much more aggitated and irritable because I had been watching Reels instead of longer/slower content. If things just didn't get to the point I'd find myself getting pissed and skipping, it's not cool/healthy. Honestly I'm cutting out reels like I'm cutting a drug addiction. Anyway, After a while you start to feel better and appreciate things more when you take it slowly. Even simple things like, hmm what's the name of that movie star again? (GOOGLE DONE), instead work your brain. You will work it out and you will feel that boost of awesomeness from doing it. I noticed the same with music, It's quick, and done, same a everybody else, and people are writing for clicks/trends also.
