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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson
Episode: How AI Could Change the Future of Music
Description: Artificial intelligence tools for musicians are getting eerily good, very fast. Their work can be maddening, funny, ethically dubious, and downright fascinating all at the same time. TV and podcast composer Mark Henry Phillips joins to describe his experience working with them. We talk about the job of modern music composition; why he's worried AI might eventually do much of his current job; the morass of AI copyright law; and the ethics of creative ownership.But above all, Mark gets my brain whirring about the nature of creativity—how great new ideas, like songs, co...