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How Artificial Intelligence Helped Write this Award-Winning Song

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Machine-learning algorithms allow composers to create all-new instruments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So it's David's first week. Welcome David. Actually to kick things off David, maybe you can let us know your thoughts on the productivity portfolio flips around the spending dilip.

0:10.0

Okay, sorry? Give us your initial POV on the productivity portfolio Moomu make much more with a feather this morning?

0:17.5

Oh, that, yeah, the uh...

0:20.5

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0:22.8

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0:27.8

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0:29.0

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0:30.0

Hey, I'm Allison Parcel and and you're listening to Science Quickly.

0:34.0

This week we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes, and honestly, this one is one of my favorite

0:38.4

things I have ever worked on.

0:40.3

It's the first in a three-part series on artificial intelligence making music,

0:44.0

and together we're going to hear a very unique song and trace the technical revolution that made its creation possible.

0:49.5

And actually, it's the perfect time to be coming back to this,

0:52.0

because the consequences of that revolution are getting very real, very quickly.

0:56.0

Just recently, a startup released a tool that people are calling the chat gPT of music.

1:01.0

I played around with it a bit, and honestly honestly it's left me kind of speechless. I didn't know that AI generated audio could sound this polished. Even having reported the series a year ago and even knowing that something like this had to be coming,

1:14.1

I still feel just so caught off guard.

1:16.4

So I hope you enjoy the episode and check out the rest of the series AI gets musical on

1:20.3

Scientific American.com. You're listening to science quickly. I'm Allison Partial.

1:38.0

I'm going to science quickly. I'm going to play you a song and I'm willing to bet good money that you've never heard anything like it before. Oh, So listening to this for the first time I was intrigued and also baffled I was

2:14.0

bopping my head to a beat that sounded pretty familiar but those notes didn't

2:18.2

sound familiar at all. Are those notes I could even play if I sat down at my piano?

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