Is A.I. music worth a listen?

KERA's Think

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Society & Culture, 071003, Kera, Think, Krysboyd

4.8 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Type in a couple of prompts and A.I. programs can spit out an original song based on your parameters. So should composers quit their jobs? Matteo Wong, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the changing face of the music industry now that A.I. music is on the scene and what separates music made by people from music made by algorithms. His article is “AI Can’t Make Music.”

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0:00.0	The last time we updated the theme music for this show, we hired professionals who specialize
0:14.5	in this kind of composition. We went back and forth a few times on the tune and the feel
0:18.5	we wanted and eventually ended up with what you hear
0:21.2	every time you listen. We don't update our music often because the process is expensive, both in
0:26.9	terms of money and time. But if we were okay with having AI take over this function, there are
0:33.1	now platforms that could literally give us new theme music every single day.
0:38.6	Think with Greece on A-T-R-A news.
0:45.5	National bars is deep inside.
0:48.8	Jean, the tough both day and night.
0:52.0	Reader's thinker stars a night.
0:55.5	Chris Bart brings the sharpest mind from used to books.
1:02.0	The world is...
1:03.0	From KERA in Dallas, this is Think.
1:05.1	I'm Chris Boyd.
1:06.3	I like it, but we have no plans to use AI this way anytime soon.
1:10.7	But now that this technology is
1:12.7	out there, trained on millions upon millions of existing recordings, some people are wondering
1:18.4	how much of the music of the future will come from digital processors rather than human souls.
1:24.2	Mateo Wong is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he about this in an article titled, AI Can't Make Music.
1:30.9	Mateo, welcome back to think.
1:33.2	Hi, thanks so much for having me on.
1:35.7	When you say AI can't make music, I guess it does depend on what you consider music, right?
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