Being human is not artificial, and probably won't be any time soon.

Playing piano is easy. The hardest part of playing at the Abbey Resort for Sunday Brunch is knowing what to play, how to play it, and when to play it. There are a lot of factors that go into those decisions: age, types of people, proximity of people to each other, temperature, weather, culture, what I played just before, etc. I decide what to do with reasonably high confidence because I have experience -- I know what's in good taste.

Another pianist could show up for Sunday Brunch with the same education, experience, and repertoire as me but come across horribly. They might not have good taste.

There are lots of pianists out there, all of them play great, and not all of them have great taste.

How do we know someone has good taste? That's not up to me, I can't decide that for myself. It's you -- the listener -- you tell me through your tips, your requests, your feedback that what I'm playing works, and is in good taste. The reason why any musician or artist becomes popular is not their skill or their education, it's their ability to produce something with good taste.

It's easy to build anything with AI now. There are so many people out there shopping their AI products. Just like pianists, there are so many AI products that all promise to revolutionize the world. What makes one better than the other? Taste, and the taste makers are humans.

And could AI replace humans as taste makers? I doubt that too; how do you program the experience you -- personally -- feel when you hear a great song and the memories it brings up? As far as I know; you can't.

Because being human is anything but artificial.