Why AI Music Is a Useful Test Case for Human-AI Collaboration
I've put a great deal of time and effort into researching the present and future of human collaboration with artificial intelligence. It's a fascinating subject - but an extraordinarily murky and opaque one.
In exploring this field, I've stumbled into a rather amusing world. AI has dramatically lowered the barrier to conducting statistical research, and as a result, a flood of people with little real background in statistical modelling have rushed in. Most of them have never even heard that there is such a thing as modeling reality using statistical methods. Students tend to think research is simple: measure something twenty times across different people, capture one data point, throw together a spreadsheet, hand it to an AI, and let it generate some conclusions. What remains completely invisible to them is everything that came before - someone carefully thinking through the study design, correctly identifying the subject of investigation, selecting...
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