• Considering human imagination the last piece of wilderness, do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song?
• What a great song makes us feel is a sense of awe… A sense of awe is almost exclusively predicated on our limitations as human beings. It is entirely to do with our audacity as humans to reach beyond our potential.

What we are actually listening to is human limitation and the audacity to transcend it. Artificial Intelligence, for all its unlimited potential, simply doesn’t have this capacity. How could it? And this is the essence of transcendence. If we have limitless potential then what is there to transcend? And therefore what is the purpose of the imagination at all. […] So to answer your question, Peter, AI would have the capacity to write a good song, but not a great one. It lacks the nerve.