"I will not let my music be programmed, he told me. I'm not going to use it to do me and do the music I've done. He wasn't rejecting technology. He was protecting what he considers human territory. We can go on and on talking about technology, he said. But he was concerned with a different question. Let's see how you make things better for people in their livesnot to emulate life but to make life better for the living."
"He's always treated technology as part of his craftas something to be shaped, tested and tuned. Long before AI became an unavoidable buzzword, he worked with synth pioneers on the sounds that defined songs like Superstition and Living for the City. He's been attending CES for more than a decade. Wonder is working on his first album in more than 20 years, so I asked what he made of AI in the creative process."
Stevie Wonder refuses to allow his music to be programmed and will not use AI to reproduce his past work. He embraces technology as part of craft but draws a boundary around human creative territory. He emphasizes that AI should make life better for living people rather than emulate life. Health-technology exhibitors showcased always-on AI companions designed to aid care decisions, locate services and navigate daily life. Microsoft AI's vice president of health stated that Copilot and Bing are used to ask roughly 50 million health-related questions per day. Accessibility tools for blind or low-vision users showed immediate, practical benefits.
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