GitHub Copilot for Piano Is Here. It’s Also Proof We’re Doing AI Music Wrong.
A new 125M-parameter transformer can autocomplete piano in real-time on an iPhone at 108 notes per second. It’s a technical marvel, but it exposes a fatal flaw in AI design: treating music like deterministic code. Speed gives you a parlor trick, but music is emotional archaeology. We don’t need faster models; we need a new way to represent musical intent.