Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

「這是一本關於音樂的書。這是一本關於我的書。這是一本關於我們這些在過去六萬年裡，以演奏者、作曲家和聽眾身分守護著音樂技藝的人類的書。這關乎人類種族，甚至可能關乎隨之而來的未來。」——Lucas Cantor Santiago

在他職業生涯的大部分時間裡，曾獲艾美獎肯定的作曲家兼製作人路卡斯．康托爾．聖地牙哥（Lucas Cantor Santiago）自認是一名盧德份子（抗拒新科技者）。他覺得科技發展得太快，在改變世界與藝術的同時，完全無視於傳統、前人辛苦累積的人類智慧，以及那些經得起時間考驗的專業技藝所付出的代價。
然而，當聖地牙哥受託於華為，與人工智慧合作完成了舒伯特的《未完成交響曲》之後，情況發生了變化——這是一次成功的實驗，吸引了全世界的關注。與機器協作創作音樂的過程，帶領他開始質疑自己長期以來對於「音樂是什麼」、「科技能做什麼」，以及兩者在人類歷史長河中如何共同演進的假設——從第一支骨笛到現今不斷創新與變革的景觀。
《未完成》結合了聖地牙哥在藝術與科技界的廣泛經驗，以及他目前持續進行的 AI 音樂創作實驗，是一部引人入勝且令人耳目一新的樂觀沉思，探討了科技在音樂與藝術中所扮演的角色。當前的藝術現況為何？我們是如何走到這一點？現在我們又該往何處去？這本書提供了一個具備專業知識的視角，探討當我們將機器更進一步納入各種形式的藝術創作時，我們失去了什麼，但也同時獲得了什麼。
For most of his career, the Emmy Award–winning composer and producer Lucas Cantor Santiago was a self-described luddite. Technology, he felt, was moving too fast, transforming the world and the arts with no regard for the cost in tradition, hard-won human wisdom, and tried-and-true methods of mastery.

That changed, however, when Cantor Santiago was commissioned by Huawei, one of the largest technology companies on the planet, to collaborate with artificial intelligence and finish Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony—a successful experiment that attracted attention throughout the world. Creating music in collaboration with a machine led him to question his long-standing assumptions about what music is, what technology does, and how the two have evolved together over the course of human history, from the first bone flute to today’s landscape of constant innovation and change.
Drawing on Cantor Santiago’s extensive experience in the arts and tech worlds and his ongoing experiments with AI-powered musicmaking, Unfinished is an engaging and refreshingly optimistic meditation on the role of technology in music and the arts. What is the current state of the art? How did we get here? Where do we go now? This book provides an informed perspective on what is lost but what we also gain when we bring our machines ever further into the creation of art in its many different forms.