For the third episode in our series about the future of music, we talk with Ge Wang. Ge is a professor at Stanford, a co-founder of Smule, the conductor of Stanford’s laptop orchestra, and has been at the center of technology and artistry for most of his life. We talk about how humans can use AI without giving in to it, what it means to truly play with techn ... Show More
Today
We play a brutal quiz of our gadget memories
Do you remember your first BlackBerry? Do you remember when that first BlackBerry launched? On this episode taped before David Pierce went on leave, producer Travis Larchuk leads David, Nilay, and The Verge’s Sean Hollister through a game of memory and history and a surprising am ... Show More
25m 40s
Aug 20
We ask Gemini and Alexa to track cats and give advice
For better or worse, Amazon Alexa and Google Home's smart voice assistants have been imbued with the powers of generative AI. The promise is that you can use natural language with your smart speaker to adjust your thermostat, lock the doors, and find out what your pets have been ... Show More
39m 22s
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
Mar 2025
How AI Could Change the Future of Music
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. W ... Show More
57m 41s
Apr 2024
The Large Language Model Race with Pete Huang, Founder of The Neuron
Episode 4: How is AI impacting the future of creativity and the workplace? Matt Wolfe (https://twitter.com/mattwolfe) and Nathan Lands (https://twitter.com/NathanLands) tap into the insights of Pete Huang (https://twitter.com/petehuang), founder of The Neuron, a daily newsletter ... Show More
51m 16s
May 2019
Chocolate Chicken Chicken Cake
If there's one thing that sets people apart from machines, it's creativity, right? Automation may take over certain jobs, but what happens when algorithms start to learn from our work to create their own? This episode, we speak with people using AI to generate films, poetry, musi ... Show More
29m 33s