Hans Zimmer Isn’t Scared of AI

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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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,
0:02.6	The Lion King, The Belmont and Louise, Gladiator, the Dark Knight,
0:10.6	Interstellar, Dune. What do all these blockbusters have in common?
0:16.0	Hans Zimmer.
0:18.0	Zimmer has scored more than 150 films in his career and is arguably the most influential composer in
0:26.5	Hollywood. He has tons of fans, some detractors, and a lot of copycats. These days there's a new copycat in town.
0:38.2	Artificial Intelligence. Last year an AI company tried to compose a major movie soundtrack in the style of Zimmer.
0:48.0	And this has broad implications for Zimmer and the company with rights to his music,
0:54.9	Reservoir Media. So let's ask Hans Zimmer himself and Reservoir Media CEO
1:02.3	Gullner Koes Rashahi. Are they afraid of AI?
1:10.0	From the Wall Street Journal's Tech Live conference,
1:13.2	welcome to a special taping of the journal,
1:17.4	our show about money, business, and power.
1:20.2	I'm Kate Leimbaw, Hans Zimmer, Golnar Koshya,
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