[machinelearning]

At the risk of sounding crazy, I think this is a pretty big milestone towards some semblance of AGI (or at the very least ASI that writes songs). The fact that neural networks are even capable of producing such outputs (even when cherry-picked) is surprising. In a sense, showing off the promise behind this kind of technology provides a cohesive vision of what this could be in its final form, which in turn inspires people to work on it and fix the pending issues.

Just think about how GANs were viewed when they were first published. The common sentiment was that it was as an interesting "research contribution" that could never live up to the hype. However, the promise behind it inspired people to continue to work on it and now we're able to produce realistic human faces that humans can't tell are fake.