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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
Colour me dubious. Machines can't get drunk or stoned and improvise based on the "cosmic groove of the moment" they way a wasted humanoid can.
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Note that I said "studio". I doubt that we are looking at a machine playing drums as well as a human in a live environment - where improvisation would be required - anytime soon. Even in the studio, a human will usually create the base track and then the machine modifies that track to add the "groove".
I'm not so sure that pharmaceutical enhancement actually inspires creativity, though, and believe me, I've done plenty of personal experimentation on the subject. I think it's more like artistic talent is positively correlated with wanting to experience different states of mind; artists are often junkies but that doesn't mean that junkies are necessarily artists.