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by knuxus 1995 days ago
> “Visual, musical, and literary art created by human artists typically involve a collaboration between human and machine intelligence.”

What about the cases of virtual divas, such as the OG from Vocaloid, Miku Hatsune, and now the whole section of vtubers, such as Hololive? Seems like it hits that spot, although still a tiny niche.

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Not really. Vocaloids are driven by human-written notes; one could argue that converting the notes into singing may involve "machine intelligence" (depending on how much processing is applied to the voice sample bank), but ultimately the software is essentially being used as an instrument.

Similarly a Virtual YouTuber is just an animated model driven by motion-capture software, with the motions and voice provided by a human. I doubt this is what Kurzweil had in mind.