Pioneers of AI How AI is charting the future of creativity, with Taryn Southern
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Dec 4, 2024 
Taryn Southern, an award-winning storyteller and creative technologist, discusses the evolving relationship between AI and creativity. She shares her journey utilizing AI in music creation, such as collaborating with chatbots to produce a festival trailer and crafting the first AI co-written album. Southern emphasizes how AI democratizes art, enabling innovative content creation. The conversation also touches on copyright concerns for artists and provides practical tips for beginners to embrace AI as a supportive tool in their creative endeavors.
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I Am AI Album
- Taryn Southern, in 2018, released I Am AI, the first AI-cowritten pop album.
- This album was inspired by a Google residency and a desire to create a futuristic, AI-infused artistic world.
Early AI Music Composition
- Taryn Southern's experience with AI in music began before “generative AI” was a common term.
- Early AI tools required manual data ingestion, like MIDI tracks of specific music styles, to generate desired outputs.
AI Music Tools Evolution
- Current AI music tools offer greater breadth and higher quality than those available in 2018.
- What used to take hundreds of iterations now requires only a few, significantly speeding up the creative process.