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How intuition gives humans the advantage over Artificial Intelligence
While Generative AI is powerful, it is no match for Human Intuition.
I love music.
For years I dreamt of becoming a songwriter and producer in the likes of Quincy Jones, George Martin, Timbaland, or Pharrell Williams. I spent most of my adolescence and young adult life writing and producing music.
Growing up I was a good singer. I was good enough to get placed in a boy band group, signed to Jive records. A month into the deal, we were dropped from the label due to issues with the Jive executives and the A&R that discovered us. We were replaced by a one-hit-wonder group called Imajin! Ha, now imagine that!
During high school, I discovered singing wasn’t enough to woo the young ladies…I had to learn how to play the piano too. So I taught myself how to play the keys. Music, generally, came naturally to me.
I spent nearly twenty years pursuing music in some capacity. During those years, I noticed there were three types of musicians:
- Nurtured musicians without natural ability — basically the kids whose parents forced them to learn an instrument.
- Untrained natural musicians — those like myself who can pick up instruments and just start playing intuitively.
- Real musicians — those who nurtured their natural ability.
While my posture playing the piano was poor, and my finger placement was not proper when transitioning across scales and chords, as an untrained natural musician, I noticed people felt my music when they heard it. The same was true for real musicians. But, the nurtured musicians, while technically their performances were flawless — it was something missing.
The difference between the real and natural musicians versus the nurtured ones was the soul.
It is said that intuition is the unconscious language of the soul and intuition is innately human. As opposed to a learned response, intuition is our innate inclination toward a particular behavior. In music, this intuition is what helps a singer bellow a certain run or riff. It’s what drives a guitarist or drummer to hit certain accent notes during a solo…
