In the run-up to the contest, Akimoto was philosophical about the process.<\/p>\n
“Everyone keeps asking me, ‘What will you do if you lose?’,” he said. <\/p>\n
“It’s fascinating to think that AI could create such a great song, and I’m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n
“I’d like to hear [fans] say, ‘I never thought of that!'”<\/p>\n
When the votes were counted, the AI won by 14,225 votes to Akimoto’s 10,535. <\/p>\n
Speaking on live television, the musician admitted he was “disappointed” by the loss.<\/p>\n
“That’s a shame. I wrote it with all my might,” he said.<\/p>\n
The AI program was also asked for a response, and commented: “Maybe the real me was trying to show something new by losing this time.”<\/p>\n
“Shut up!” Akimoto retorted, prompting laughter in the studio.<\/p>\n
The composer was comforted by Grammy-winning jazz musician Hiromi Uehara and former AKB48 singer Sashihara Rino, who encouraged a rematch.<\/p>\n
Akimoto laughed off the suggestion, but expressed frustration about technology’s ability to mine data and find the “maximum common denominator”.<\/p>\n
However, he conceded: “I think the AI \u200b\u200bsong is a good song.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the run-up to the contest, Akimoto was philosophical about the process. “Everyone keeps asking me, ‘What will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-141386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}