So by "keep up" what he really means is maximizing his profit from you, that as soon as a virtual jazz piano teacher is cheaper than a real one, (no matter the quality) the real one can fuck off while he counts his money.

Ok, so music education specifically... Sadly I can see that.

How to just play instruments and general basic features of genres.. I could see generative AI able to do things on that front. Most notably ability to analyze your performance and identify gaps. Basic rote stuff without need for creativity or soul. The same stuff that countless musicians have already done. I don't think there is a need to genAI up pre-recorded, non interactive lessons, but I could buy interactive AI experience as being feasible and competitive.

At least in theory, though I see that video of someone asking for feedback on their music and it's just literal random farting and the AI was still quite complimentary. But Iif someone told me someone curated a more specialized GenAI experienced that worked better in the context... I would at least believe in the feasibility.

Oh we've heard it. It's shit. Good for a laugh and that's about it.

I have, it's not an improvement over musicians. I see no way it could help a musician. I can see how it could help a non musician generate something that can pass for music, but I don't see a musician getting use out of AI.

For writing music, if you could write music before, AI can't help you. If you know how but just have a creative block, random AI crap won't be any better in a musicians hands than a random person.

When it comes to performing, largely virtual instruments without AI could already handle those credibly. Stuff like violin might have taken longer, but it got there. The one exception is vocals, where vocaloid was about as far as non AI could get and while interesting, no one was going to mistake vocaloid for real singer. AI vocals can pass for a phoned in vocal performance. But I'd just as soon have a real singer, there's no shortage thanks to decades of music and the Internet.

Hmmh. I think we're already past posting some SUNO crap and getting flack. I mean reportedly, there's already a lot of "AI music" on Spotify. We had the first "AI artists" on some billboards for R&B, country, pop, christian music(?)... And I get "AI music" on YouTube. And I'm fairly sure some small minority of retail stores here have (very nasty) "AI music".

But it's not like it's good? To this date it's some very bland shit you'd play in the elevator or on the loo. I've never felt anything when listening to it the same way I feel when listening to some old Pink Floyd album or whatever. And I doubt people will go to a music festival and there's ChatGPT on stage... I'm fairly sure AI will have a hard time displacing proper art. I mean sure, pop music, the billionths love song text, samples, it'll creep in to music. But we already have drum computers, electronic music. And to be fair, bands like The Prodigy never needed any drummer. But I really think from a perspective of someone who listens to music intentionally, there's no chance AI will take over the entire thing. It's just neither good, nor can it play concerts, nor does the music mean anything.

And from the hobby musician's perspective, I'd say music is entirely for humans. It's your personal enjoyment to play folk songs on the accordion, pop covers on the acoustic guitar at the fireplace or bring your fiddle and flute to the session at the irish pub. Or meet with your band mates in the practice room every week to play some punk rock and drink a lot of beer. AI can't ever take that away.