The use of artificial intelligence and its repercussions on different sectors of daily life, including the artistic one, are issues from which the most diverse hypotheses on the future arise. And while many look with suspicion and fear to this computer evolution, the guitarist and writer from Messina Reno Brandoni, born in 1960, faces it in an original way in his latest writing “Music was born where he must be born – conversations on music with artificial intelligence” (Le Ruzzole), available on Amazon and also in the bookstore. An unexpected dialogue between human being and algorithm, born by chance, which gives life to a unique essay of its kind and very current, based on the investigation of the relationship between emotion, technology and perception.
“I had intrigued myself compared to this topic – Brandoni tells us – and I started using artificial intelligence starting with the normal questions that everyone is doing at the first approach with this technology. Subsequently I wanted to try a deeper dialogue and I saw that it gave even very interesting answers, because the reaction of the AI was not only mechanical, but had reflections and assessments. There I let myself take my hand and tried to deepen, making the AI understand how I wrote and what I read. We gradually carried out this conversation from which the idea of the book was resulted in the end ».
At the center of the exchange, music, understood as a universal language capable of soliciting emotions that, surprisingly, even artificial intelligence seems to be able to recognize. «My first perplexity was on how he did to talk about music without listening to her. He explained to me how he managed to do it, illustrating techniques and motivations. The dialogue was born from there, including the part on the future, the most distressing of the book ».
And speaking of the future, is there really the risk that the IA can supplant the human being, even in music?
“I think not. The same ia says that as long as there is a human being capable of taking a guitar and making it excited with the notes, human existence will have no end. The problem is only the method of using the tool. Music aims to communicate something, that you do it with the harpsichord as Bach or with electric guitar as Jimi Hendrix has little importance. The important thing is to create an original product capable of exciting ».
