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The Journal.

Hans Zimmer Isn’t Scared of AI

The Journal.

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, Daily News, News

4.25.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Hans Zimmer, Academy Award-winning composer, and Golnar Khosrowshahi, CEO of Reservoir Media, discuss AI in the music industry, why human creation is still unique and whether or not Zimmer approves of “The Journal” theme music. Further Listening: -Artificial: The OpenAI Story -When AI Comes for Your Art Further Reading: -Hans Zimmer, Movie Maestro -Music Labels Take On AI Startups With New Lawsuits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Lion King, Felman Louise, Gladiator, The Dark Night, Interstellar, Dune.

0:13.1

What do all these blockbusters have in common?

0:16.8

Hans Zimmer.

0:18.8

Zimmer has scored more than 150 films in his career and is arguably the most

0:25.2

influential composer in Hollywood. He has tons of fans, some detractors, and a lot of copycats.

0:34.4

These days, there's a new copycat in town, artificial intelligence.

0:41.0

Last year, an AI company tried to compose a major movie soundtrack in the style of Zimmer.

0:49.0

And this has broad implications for Zimmer and the company with rights to his music, Reservoir Media.

0:56.8

So let's ask Han Zimmer himself and Reservoir Media CEO, Golnar Kosra Shahi, are they afraid of AI?

1:09.4

From the Wall Street Journal's Tech Live Conference, welcome to a special taping of The Journal,

1:17.4

our show about money, business, and power.

1:19.8

I'm Kate Linebaugh, Hans Zimmer, Golnar Koshat Rahi.

1:25.8

Welcome to the show.

1:37.4

Thank you. Golnar Koshat Rahi. Welcome to the show. Here's the truth about AI.

1:39.8

AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into.

1:43.4

Service Now puts AI to work for people across

1:46.0

your business, removing friction and frustration for your employees, supercharging productivity

1:51.7

for your developers, providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier,

1:57.4

all built into a single platform you can use right now. That's why the world works with ServiceNow.

2:04.2

Visit ServiceNow.com slash UK slash AI for people.

2:08.9

Race the rudder. Raise the sails. Raise the sales.

2:12.9

Captain and unidentified ship approaching. Over.

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