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Now AI is coming for musicians | Music is at the same place text and image generation was 18 months ago

AI like ChatGPT and Midjourney has already changed text and image generation. Now Suno AI is coming for music.

Inside of a piano (iStock)Do you remember those far off misty days of yore, when shocking, startling, amazing, disquieting revelations from the world of Artificial Intelligence only arrived every year or two, or even longer? It was about, ooh, a fortnight ago: a wistful, innocent time of smiling boy scouts, and honey for tea, and vicars in bicycle clips, and all we had to worry about was this funny new thing called GPT3. Just last month OpenAI, the company at the bleeding edge of this revolutionary tech, announced Sora, a ‘diffusion’ model which creates video scenes (of hallucinatory brilliance and sometimes great beauty) out of verbal prompts.

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