I agree with you human creations can’t be beaten or approximated and will probably see in the future some “Crafted by human” labels like we have now “Handcrafted”. Nevertheless I, even by believing in this song raised emotions in me as any other music would, but of course, this one has a strange flavor.
Working in the field, I know that it is a technical accomplishment. It is not directly for the sake of making music like humans but to push the boundaries of a relatively new technology which is deep learning. I wrote AI in the title but this is not AI to me, this is more statistical associations. There’s no brain whatsoever this model is trained to create those songs and can’t beat you at tic tac toe.
When photography arrived, realistic painters thought “we’re doomed”. From there new movements arrived (cubism, impressionism, and so on). I’m curious to see what would be the new genre that will arise. In effects, we know reverb, delay, chorus, … maybe some new genre of effects will appear (like sample translation?).
Can Computers Create Art? is an interesting paper by a researcher at Adobe, I like what he says in the conclusion:
I do not believe that any software system in our current understanding could be called an “artist.” Art is a social activity. I mean this as a warning against misleading oneself and others about the nature of art