There is an invigorating debate among my IIT friends about this robot playing the violin. The summary of the majority view is
1. AI and LLM will overtake humans.
2. Man took 2 billion years to be here but AI will do it in say a decade.
3. Man is just some carbon stuff. This is silicon stuff. No need to discard its excellence.
4. Music can be coded and robotic music be as great as what we like among human musicians, if not better.
My own view:
1. A robot has no soul. Music comes from the soul although it is processed and presented by the mind-body complex.
2. A robot can not enjoy music. So even if he produces music, he will be a fake!
3. We are underestimating the human faculties of love, bliss and aesthetic creativity. To think man can put it into code and make a Deep Learning Robot a better version of himself is highly underestimating man. In other words, it is underestimating Bhagavan, in whose image man has been created.
If man can create a machine better than himself, he is actually destroying Bhagavan. Will that day come?
