{"id":189634,"date":"2024-05-17T19:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/ai-can-now-generate-entire-songs-on-demand-what-does-this-mean-for-music-as-we-know-it"},"modified":"2024-05-17T19:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:30:46","slug":"ai-can-now-generate-entire-songs-on-demand-what-does-this-mean-for-music-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/ai-can-now-generate-entire-songs-on-demand-what-does-this-mean-for-music-as-we-know-it","title":{"rendered":"AI Can Now Generate Entire Songs on Demand. What Does This Mean for Music as We Know It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-can-now-generate-entire-songs-on-demand-what-does-this-mean-for-music-as-we-know-it3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In March, we saw the launch of a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/suno-ai-chatgpt-for-music-1234982307\/\">ChatGPT for music<\/a>\u201d called <a href=\"https:\/\/suno.com\">Suno<\/a>, which uses generative AI to produce realistic songs on demand from short text prompts. A few weeks later, a similar competitor\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udio.com\">Udio <\/a>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/udio-ai-music-chatgpt-suno-1235001675\/\">arrived on the scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been working with various creative computational tools for the past 15 years, both as a researcher and a producer, and the recent pace of change has floored me. As I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262045018\/beyond-the-creative-species\/\">argued elsewhere<\/a>, the view that AI systems will never make \u201creal\u201d music like humans do should be understood more as a claim about social context than technical capability.<\/p>\n<p>The argument \u201csure, it can make expressive, complex-structured, natural-sounding, virtuosic, original music which can stir human emotions, but AI can\u2019t make <em>proper<\/em> music\u201d can easily begin to sound like something from a Monty Python sketch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, we saw the launch of a \u201cChatGPT for music\u201d called Suno, which uses generative AI to produce realistic songs on demand from short text prompts. A few weeks later, a similar competitor\u2014 Udio \u2014 arrived on the scene. I\u2019ve been working with various creative computational tools for the past 15 years, both as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}