In episode two of The Vergecast's AI mini series, David Pierce sits down with Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding and music producer Ian Kimmel to share how they made an entire song from scratch using a bunch of AI tools.
Later, Nilay Patel joins the discussion to talk about the future of AI in the music industry.
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Feb 3
Millions of books died so Claude could live
AI companies want all the data, everywhere, to make their models bigger and better. That means a lot of questions about piracy and copyright, and at least in one case it means Anthropic systematically destroying countless books just to feed them to the model. The Washington Post' ... Show More
1h 28m
Jan 30
Tim Cook is destroying his own legacy
We've been covering what's happening in Minnesota, and the killing of Alex Pretti, all week on The Verge. To begin this episode, Nilay explains why — and why so many others seem to feel the same way right now. After that, the hosts talk about the CEO-studded screening of Melania ... Show More
1h 35m
Jan 27
Truth and AI in Minneapolis
Like so many others, we’re still reeling from the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. To open the show, we talk with Adi Robertson about how videos of the incident moved around social platforms, how even well-intentioned people got confused by AI imagery, and what we’ve learne ... Show More
1h 15m
Nov 2019
Can AI Compose Good Music?
Computers can now drive cars, identify faces and transcribe speech, but many experts said that it would take much longer for AI to tackle creative endeavors. This week on Decrypted, Bloomberg Technology's Natalia Drozdiak meets three composers using artificial intelligence to mak ... Show More
26m 18s
Sep 2023
Don't forget to jargon check your AI
This week on Equity, Alex was joined by Nathan Baschez, the CEO and founder of Lex, an AI-infused online writing tool that recently raised capital. Together, we're talking through a few key topics that have been top of mind in recent months:
How many AI-powered, or AI-using writ ... Show More
31m 44s
Feb 2023
Real Humans Chat About Chatbots
<p>The unstoppable march of artificial intelligence carries on. In mere weeks, AI has oozed into nearly everything we interact with on the internet, from conversations, to journalism, to how we look stuff up online. It's even got Google scrambling to reclaim its spot on the searc ... Show More
32m 53s
Dec 2021
Episode 21 - Tesla Day | Github Copilot
Intro - Welcome back to Dev Theory Podcast - A podcast about everything Web Development. - This is Episode 21. I'm Shaun Willis, here with our co-host Isaac Weber. Today we will be talking about Tesla AI Day, Humanoid Robots, and where we see AI headed as it relates to software e ... Show More
24m 25s
Apr 2024
The Rise and Dangers of Speech A.I.
Episode 3: Are you ready for speech A.I.? Because it’s here, not in 6 months or a year, but now. AI-generated voice technologies will have a major impact on many things in our daily lives. This technology will effect everything spanning applications in language learning, music cr ... Show More
37m 23s