How A.I. Has Changed Music, and What’s Coming Next

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Artificial intelligence has become the dominant disrupter to music creation and distribution. And it’s only getting started. Guests: Bloomberg's Rachel Metz and Billboard's Kristin Robinson.

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0:00.0	Crapes speakers hum along New York Times were where we belong.
0:06.3	Welcome to the New York Times,
0:08.0	your language too vast for any training model to grasp of music, news, and criticism.
0:13.8	I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:15.6	We click journeys through the sound.
0:18.8	Boston Found were music on every story every beat
0:24.4	podcast bringing fire and he
0:27.8	podcast podcasts podcasts podcasts podcasts
0:29.8	podcasts and I ride the waves of music's light,
0:34.7	jump your monic the sky, so sweet the rhythm feel the
0:39.5	to be. I know for years you've been listening to
0:53.0	popcast and thinking these guys need a theme song.
0:56.9	Why don't they have theme songs?
0:58.6	Well, what did I spend the last few days doing?
1:01.5	Well, playing around with Suno and Udo, which are two of the leading
1:06.4	music AI interfaces to proximate what a popcast theme song might sound like. I put some prompts in and came up with a bunch of different
1:16.8	options which I'm going to be sprinkling through the show this week which is completely devoted to contemporary uses of
1:25.8	artificial intelligence in music. We are going to be talking with Rachel Metz
1:30.4	who covers artificial intelligence more broadly at Bloomberg, and Kristen Robinson
1:35.8	who covers the music business, including how the record industry is trying to use AI for
1:41.7	Billboard. What you were hearing at the beginning of the show, you
1:45.8	are hearing, there's no name, but it was made with Suno. It's the first track that was generated with the prompt of asking for a popcast theme song that sounded like 90s Midwest emo.
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