But if you program it with enough possibilities, somebody with musical and computer smarts, can create a product where a user doesnt need EITHER ability, band in a box only has so many style sets, but if you could rogram a musical system to randomly geneate sveral million possibilities, both lyrically and musically, you might have something.

Micrsoft made it possible for us to be talking here, the techie side of it was far too complex, but when it was made user friendly, it became a world changer.

Man will always be able to write songs, but with "great" being subjective, like most of the stuff on the radio people think stinks, so there is no telling if people will like it.

They probably will like some and not others, just like all music

You can also program a robot to cry or to laugh, and know when each was appropiate

Interesting article. I must go and get some work done before banned again!

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/money/2015/03/10/future-near-artificial-intelligence/24722239/