Pianos and AGI: How tools reshape expression
deanwball · x · 2026-08-25
Dean W. Ball published an essay titled "Measure Up," using the history of the piano to draw parallels to the evolution of AI. The text explains how technological leaps in the late 18th and early 19th centuries transformed the piano from a casual entertainment device into a vehicle for profound artistic expression, enabling masterpieces like Beethoven's. Ball argues that AI, similarly, is a new kind of instrument whose advancing capabilities will fundamentally reshape how we create and think.
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