I worry about AI. We are already seeing AI produced music by the likes of Oasis and the Beatles. How long before they turn to the classics and we start to see new symphonies by Beethoven? And will anyone actually know the difference?
What will be nice is if they can use AI to improve the sound of early opera recordings. Now that is where the research should be focused. It is not perfect. You would not believe what AI thinks I say. I was writing to a friend to tell her I looked forward to seeing what her pastries were like and it wrote out " I look forward to seeing what her panties were like".
A common experience, I gather, in texting. My peeve is having my computer trying to complete words and sentences for me. It happens here constantly, and I'm constantly impressed by the AS (Artificial Stupidity) of it. I haven't figured out how to make it stop; when I ask Google, AI does not step in and answer the question.
It's conceivable that where we have a singer like Ponselle whose career spanned improvements in recording technology - in her case all the way to the Villa Pace home recordings - we could make the earlier recordings sound much like the later. I think we can expect someone to try that.
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