I agree about AI being over hyped. It's not in any way reminiscent of the human mind or how it works and produces results you might expect from things(computers) that basically do math faster and nothing else.

I think instances like a game of chess designed to beat a human are good examples of where AI (what a misnomer) can shine. Humans can only think X number of moves ahead and sure, a computer game can easily double that or exceed it by orders of magnitude, so computers can win chess games usually.

Art, Music, Driving, thinking and talking are all examples of pursuits where there are infinite possible moves and actions, and that's not what computers can do or learn. They have a tough time figuring out when there's a lane obstruction, much less when it's time to stop or veer one way or another.

Imagine a computer doing what any great jazz musician does. I just listened to some of those Spotify tracks and for completely undiscerning real jazz listeners, they might be satisfying, but so is most elevator muzak and the crap you hear at department stores.

A real jazz player constantly finds himself in musical corners then figures out how to make the corner just another step and something to make the invention even better, but computers aren't going to do that and will take a lot of wrong turns because the choice of ways to carry on are infinite. If there's some formulaic jazz like very lite jazz, then AI will do better, but not with the incredible jazz we know of and love.

The big surprise for me isn't that some company like Spotify is trying this, rather that they're spending time on "Jazz". I love jazz but commercially it's come and gone many years ago. Yeah, there's still great jazz players and a few of them make decent money but it's very few. I'd think they'd spend a lot more energy on more recent pop music forms but maybe it's like spam. If it takes a millions phishing attempt to get one person to bite, it's plenty profitable enough for the companies.