will.i.am hails artificial intelligence (AI) as the “new renaissance” of music.
The 48-year-old musician and member of the Black Eyed Peas has expressed optimism about the new music software he can use to produce and create his songs.
He said on ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “I’ve written songs like Boom Boom Pow, I Gotta Feeling, Where Is The Love?, but Machine has done some great versions and the original Boom Boom Paws.”
He added that people “want” songs that could be “social commentary” on the news, which AI “will be able to do.”
“It’s a very, very, very unique world that we’re entering. It’s a new renaissance.”
He said that new technology creates something new, rather than just “copying” what he’s doing.
“It was a brand new song and I wrote it the way I would write it.”
“What worries me is what we do as humans, and the regulations and guidelines we impose on the people building the models,” he continued.
“There is the fact that the AI imitates, but at the same time it doesn’t put in the clause that the human essentially owns the likeness… well, that’s one thing. It’s not the AI that decides it, it’s the human that decides it.” is.”
But other celebrities such as Dolly Parton and Charlie Brooker have also expressed concerns about AI.
Black Mirror creator Brooker told Empire magazine that using the ChatGPT tool created something that “at first glance” looked plausible, but didn’t include “actual original thoughts.”
He also told PA that the advances in AI explored in the latest episode of the Netflix series could be used in “frankly frightening ways.”
Brooker was referring to an episode of the dystopian anthology show in which a woman finds her life recreated by streaming platform Streamberry.
At a press conference last week, Parton was asked about continuing to live in an artificial body in the future.
she said: “I think I have done a great job,” she said.
“I don’t want to leave my soul on this earth, so I have to decide how much I want to be involved in high-tech stuff.”
