Decades before AI became a thing, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface became a thing, and all drummers everywhere — it was hyped and menaced and believed — would pretty promptly become obsolete, cast out of want and need! There may have been some of that initially, but drums are drums, humans are humans, and machines are machines. The overall demand pretty promptly rebounded and redoubled. Celebrity that had been limited to perhaps Krupa and Rich expanded briskly through today when there are more ‘how to play drums’ youtubes than ever. MIDI did not ‘kill the drummer’ or drumming at all; instead, it opened up an entirely new “cone” of musicianship that led in myriad fresh directions while at the same time making drumming and good drummers ever more valuable. The same will be true of AI but on a much grander scale. In fact, AI’s real danger is in its side-effects of wildly jacking electricity rates, water and land consumption, technocracy and ominous furtherance of Digitalia and Ordo AI Chao.
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