Sorry, computer said "no"
> machine-learning software that promises to automatically listen to songs and predict whether they'll become popular or not
Great! So music will become even more uniform, as artists who are not in the AI's commercial canon are automatically discarded... I guess if they had introduced that in the early medieval times our music today would still be exclusively monophonic plainsong.
At least back in the times where humans did the choosing an artist could happen upon somebody who would recognize his/her potential, even if (s)he didn't sound like anything out there. An AI doesn't have taste, or feelings, or even understands what music is to us meatbags.