๐ What will happen when machines write songs just as well as your favorite musician?
On the upside, the rise of AI tools could spur entirely new genres. Fresh music technologies often do. The electric guitar gave us rock, the synth helped create new wave, electronic drum machines and samplers catalyzed the growth of hip-hop. Auto-Tune was a dirty little secret of the record industry, a way to clean up bad singing performances, until artists like Cher and T-Pain used it to craft entirely new, wild vocal styles. The next great trend in music could be sparked by an artist who takes the AI capabilities and runs with them. โSomeone can make their own and really develop an identity of, Iโm the person who knows how to use this,โ says Magenta project engineer Adam Roberts. โA violinยญโthis was technology that when you give it to Mozart, he goes, โLook what I can do with this piece of technology!โโ exclaims Cohen, the Orchard co-founder. โIf Mozart was a teenager in 2019, what would he do with AI?โ