Music created solely by machines will probably remain derivative and simplistic for a long time. I expect the biggest result of this research in the near term is that we'll be able to create tools that lower the skill and time required to create good music, kind of like an audio version of templates/autocomplete/spellcheck.
There are a lot of futurists and singularity types that take it personally when people disagree with their assessment. It's no big deal, but the open minded, progressive thing to do would be to have a debate and save the downvotes for trolls.
