Amazing: 'PROTO' - an album artist Holly Herndon made with - an AI!

We needn’t raise technology to be a “monster.” 'PROTO' is a love song to the capacity for machine-made music to be full of life - artist Holly Herndon wrote about her amazing new album which she made with help from a artificial intelligence she named Spawn. She explains in an interview with the Vice: "We wanted to approach Spawn as a performer rather than a composer, and use sound as material rather than midi data scores". Practically, Spawn was ‘trained’ on the music that Herndon and her band were writing for the album, and after learning from the new ‘data’, which bears all the marks of Herndon’s creative decision making, Spawn almost becomes a ‘creative’ AI agent, Packt Hub writes. Guardian loves the album, with focus on music, rather than on technology - "It’s an album of dizzying, spiritual, science-fact beauty and bracing beats". Listen to the album on BandCamp.