Every day that passes on this Earth, in this universe, something new is happening or ought to be happening. I imagine you’ve noticed what’s going on with AI and its applications; it’s slowly becoming less ‘new,’ but the way it’s being implemented and the leaps made in its management and offerings are immense. We’re no longer just talking about it composing music for you; it can create music videos for the song it wrote for you, it has a synthetic voice, there are robots that play instruments and others that conduct, and I’m sure that in some lab right now, a robot is being built that will be able to sing with the quality of Callas or any great opera singer we fancy.

So, will they remove human creativity and human error from the equation? I can’t answer that, but if we assume we’re heading towards a perfectionist reality where ‘error,’ or rather ‘an interpretive perspective beyond the usual,’ will be eliminated in favor of absolute musical execution, then human intellect will cease to generate new ideas. A machine can read a score perfectly, but it is humans who will make those interventions that render the thousandth reading of the Fifth Symphony unique. And this is something we must not lose, because then art, and in our case, music, will become just another flawless construct that will hold little interest for us to observe, because we need to be able to compare beauty to find what we truly like.

The homogenization of beauty, therefore, leads to the degradation of taste and the idiosyncrasies that comprise it, ultimately losing its ‘flavor.’ We must preserve the reality of human intellect to keep our lives ‘flavorful,’ and the sooner we realize this, the better, because we will then be able to direct our inventiveness elsewhere to harness our capabilities as rational beings who want to create something new every day.