Offer choices
Provide several musical possibilities. Let the learner listen, compare, change them or reject them all.
人工智能 is the Chinese term for artificial intelligence. Ruthmann’s proposed term, 人工夫 (rén gōngfu), keeps 人工, “human-made,” and brings 工夫—the time and effort of practice—into the foreground. Its working English gloss is “human-made cultivation.”
The question shifts from what a system can produce to what a person develops through using it: an ear for a musical choice, a technique that becomes available under the fingers, or a reason for revising a phrase.
Two further terms in the workshop design extend that idea: 聖人工夫, “the sage’s cultivation,” treats practice as ongoing; 工坊, “the workshop,” names a place where practice accumulates and becomes visible. These are the project’s conceptual starting points, offered for discussion and development.