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OK Computer, AI is changing the world of music

music engineer

AI is making serious waves in the music industry. Ed Rex, CEO of JukeDeck, explains how it is transforming the way musicians make tracks and how fans find new tunes.

We think of music as uniquely human; it’s one of the things that defines us as a species. It has no purpose but enjoyment, no meaning but what you make of it, no rules but what you like and what you don’t. So we find the idea that machines are starting to understand it at best baffling and at worst downright scary.

But these machines that understand music – using artificial intelligence to do so – are at the heart of pretty much every music service you’re likely to use (unless you’re a huge vinyl fan). AI is changing the way we interact with music, just like it’s changing pretty much every other industry....