RE: [agi] Music and AI's Friendliness

[Ben Goertzel]

*****  After all, AI's can't fall in love, or feel human sadness, etc. But they can listen to human music inspired by these experiences, and they can improvise music together with humans who are playing their instruments in such a way as to evoke the essence of these human experiences...      Actually if you are able to do sensitive to a AGI of energy involved in a live performance you could teach intangible knowledges about human nature and attitudes, not easily available throught books, etc.     I think this would be a really nifty aspect of AGI teaching/training ;-)   Hopefully as the Novamente project unfolds, some computer music programmers will emerge to write some Novamente musical interfacing software for us!!!     Maybe in that moment non-programmers will be able to be useful in your research ;-)  ***     I think it'll be useful to have all sorts of humans -- not just programmers -- involved in teaching baby AI's ... via ordinary verbal-type teaching, and via musical education as well ...   I would like to see a baby AGI come to appreciate the peculiar and fascinating beauty of the full spectrum of humanity...  ;-)   -- Ben