Robot beats human pianist in public Chopin test
mainThe Italian pianist Robert Prosseda put his Chopin skills to the text against a mechanical robot in front of a critical Beijing audience.
The result? Robot won on most counts.
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I’ll take my hat off to any engineer who can program a robot to play a rhythmically convincing rubato, Chopin mazurka or Viennese Waltz.
Not to mention the mechanical interface between your software and the actual keys!
The robot may have receive more applause simply because of the novelty that he is a robot
…but Denis Matsuev has been masquerading as a human pianist for years and gets away with it!
He isn’t the only one.
I say the better test would be to see if anyone could discern the robot’s playing from any one coming out of today’s conservatories. The conservatory factories are churning out robotic students like nobody’s business these days.
Good, this means all those want-to-be pianists can become plumbers instead, which will drive down the cost of having a plumber come to your home for a weekend emergency. That would be a true service to humanity.
If Yuja Wang went up against that tin can, we would have a way different outcome.