Can AI 'Algorhythms' Write Pop Songs? (With Taryn Southern)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

There is a lot of scare about the impending future of artificial intelligence making humans irrelevant. Musician Taryn Southern examines this narrative through her song “Life Support,” written with the aid of AI composition tools. We dispel current myths about AI music and discuss its future opportunities. In the second half of the show we run a musical 'Turing test' to see if you can identify music made by a bot from that composed by the hand of a human. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:20.8	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:30.5	I'm songwriter Charlie Harding and I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:34.6	And we are very excited to have joining with us today.
0:37.2	Teran Southern technologist actor, songwriter, extraordinarily talented person who's here
0:43.2	with some new music that we're going to deconstruct today.
0:45.9	Welcome to the show.
0:46.9	Thank you.
0:47.9	Thanks for having me.
0:48.9	I think that your music is going to overwhelmingly surprise people.
0:53.0	It's perhaps even going to frighten some listeners.
0:55.6	And I don't want to ruin this surprise.
0:57.4	I figure what we could do is just jump right into it and hear a little bit of your new
1:01.1	single life support.
1:02.5	Awesome.
1:03.5	Yeah.
1:04.5	Cool.
1:05.5	Let's turn this over.
1:06.5	Really fun song.
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