“I've spent a lot of time sort of trying to bully AI into being interesting”: Jacob Collier says that the problem with using AI for music making is that “it’s almost too perfect”

Jacob Collier.

Given his broad-minded and inventive approach to composing and arranging, you’d expect Jacob Collier to have a view on the use of AI in music-making, and indeed he does.

Speaking to Rags Martel, Collier says: “I think an AI can learn skills but it can't learn a perspective or a sense of humour or an attitude. It's almost too perfect to be interesting.”