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Welcome to AI Collision 💥,

In today’s collision between AI and our world:

• Five minutes to stardom
• AI tools are insanely good
• WORLD PREMIERE

If that’s enough to get the beats dropping, read on…

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Today is an instructional on how to make a euro-dance, progressive, deep house banger in five minutes…

Ok, so that might sound ridiculous to you. And to be fair, it may be ridiculous.

But hear me out for a second. Because I’m going to step out for you how to become a global DJ megastar in five minutes.

Having said that, I know from covering this area of AI previously that some of our readers are actual, proper musicians.

I mean no disrespect with what follows. And by no means do I consider myself a musician…

However…

I am going to show you how ridiculously easy it is to create music using the latest in AI technology. So much so, that if you were to become good enough at it, I don’t see any reason why maybe someone reading this now, uses AI to produce a song that actually ends up paying streaming royalties.

I’m serious. And I think that’s very much the direction that music is heading.

As I say, I’ve covered this topic before, when I wrote about the AI band that had appeared on Spotify.

This is the same, but different. It’s different, because I know I can take what I created in five minutes today, and play it next time I’ve got a house party going and mix it in with other tracks I’m streaming from Beatport (a music download and streaming site) as an original track.

No one would be the wiser, and hey they might even like it.

So, let me explain a bit more what’s going on and how you could create and stream, and collect (tiny) royalties if what you make is good enough. Note: the royalties part is a big stretch but anything is possible.

I’ve been playing with an AI music creation application, Suno.com.

It’s kind of what you expect an AI music creation tool would be. You just need to add lyrics, and your style prompts, and then let the AI wizardry do its thing.

Here’s what the workspace looks like,

Now, the thing is you really need two key things to make anything good.

1. Lyrics
2. The ability to describe what you want it to sound like

I’ll get to point 2 shortly, because that’s really a big part of what makes our AI future still… human.

Actually, so is point 1, kind of.

I’ll admit, I cheated.

I didn’t write lyrics myself. I did have some ideas as to what I wanted lyrics based on. A moment, a feeling, a time and place, a memory that I could describe in words, via a prompt, that I fed into ChatGPT.

I also asked ChatGPT to structure and frame the lyrics in a particular way to ensure that the structure of them fitted the style of music I wanted to make.

And then it pumped out the lyrics for me. I should say, the art of writing lyrics is a very human thing. And I don’t see that changing. But i do see people with good ideas that aren’t lyricists being able to create something using AI that previously maybe never saw the light of day.

Anyway, with my new AI built lyrics I copied and pasted them into Suno.

I then described the music I wanted, hit create and it gave me some tracks in about 30 seconds.

I tweaked the description of style ever so slightly, adjusted the “Wildness” parameter and the “Style Influence” parameter and did another two tracks.

And that was it. I made some songs. You can find the WORLD PREMIERE of one of them later on.

I’m not sure if any of it is good, or they suck.

I would like to hear what you think in the comments later, after you’ve heard the track. FWIW, I just uploaded the track here, so I get nothing from it if you play it (aside from great satisfaction that someone took on board something I made that wasn’t written).

I think it’s actually pretty decent for five minutes work. I’m also going to see if I can upload it and have it distributed through Spotify and maybe, just maybe it’ll get some streams.

I am of course, just playing around with this, to experiment and understand the AI tools that are at our disposal. I have paid for the Suno subscription, and I pay for my ChatGPT subscription too. So, these AI companies, they’re getting paid and there’s big money that’s flowing their way.

And this is a glimpse of what AI everywhere looks like in the future too.

This also reinforces to me that the future of all industry will be heavily influenced and shaped by AI, AI tools and how we interact with and embrace them.

Most of the complexity in what I was able to do came via the ability to relate what I wanted into a coherent prompt that the AI was able to follow and extrapolate from.

The ability to prompt AI in this way is going to be a skill that I believe all workers will require in the future. And it will be progressive organisations that put the resources, i.e. capital, into training their workers on how to use AI and prompt AI in the right ways that stay ahead of this technology curve.

That ability to prompt, that’s going to be an important skill. As much as AI will be our guide in the future, we too will be its guide to help it get what exists in our brains out and into the world in a way that other humans can benefit from.

I will also add that some of my prompting, ended up in utter garbage, so I had to adjust and adapt on the fly. AI is notoriously bad at doing this, but humans are very good at it. Again, all this AI created stuff really isn’t possible without the human input behind it.

So, yes there will be jobs that disappear in the same way that no one works at Blockbuster Video anymore. But that will also create new opportunities for those who can embrace and engage with AI and then figure out how to monetise it for their own benefit.

I don’t much expect everyone that reads this will go on to become an AI music megastar. But if you have a go and play around a bit, who knows what might come of it. Or any other AI tool that’s out there that you can jump on, play around with and look to enhance and accelerate your high tech, AI enabled future.

Oh… and the song? Here’s some of the style genres used, techno, house, progressive house, pop/dance house, deep dubstep. And it led to “Break the Shield”.

Without further delay, here’s the WORLD PREMIERE of “Break the Shield”

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AI and AI-related stocks moving and shaking up the markets this week. (All performance data below over the rolling week).

Boom 📈

• Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) up 14%
• C3.ai (NYSE:AI) up 10%
• Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) up 7%

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• Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) down 3%
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From the hive mind 🧠

• I think that it’s clear we will end up with age verification filters on the use of AI. When this gets more airtime in the mainstream it will force the hand of politicians and they will force the hand of big tech.
• With that said… schools are openly embracing AI chatbots.
• I know Microsoft is going big on AI in their game development. So its no great surprise that game development already heavily leans into AI for productivity improvements.

Artificial Polltelligence 🗳️

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Sam Volkering

Editor-in-Chief

AI Collision