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On today’s episode, we review the AI-enhanced Beatles song, “Now and Then,” and discuss Bad Bunny’s reaction to his AI music. Then we discuss YouTube’s generative AI program, Dream Track, and discuss the relationship between video and music with TikTok and finally we go deep on Bandcamp and how they could be using AI in their future. Let’s get into it.

On today’s episode, we talk to ChatGPT 4.0 using Whisper, their speech-to-text mode, and their text-to-speech mode to have Chat respond with spoken words, via the voice model “Juniper” on topics like Kanye West and white supremacy. Then we discuss the new Beatles song, “Now and Then,” and how AI was used to create this final Beatles track with some help from Peter Jackson. Let’s get into it.

On today’s episode, we make a lot more music using AI. First, we talk about our use of Discord in general and how it can be used to organize music making. Then Jacob uses BandLab’s song starter AI to make some AI generated beats. Then Frank uses Chirp software to create whole dream pop songs, with lyrics using AI. Let’s get into it.

On today’s episode, we hit a ton of topics on AI! We first talk through some student examples of writing with AI and discuss racial bias in training. Then we discuss AI movies – like HER, Ex Machina, and Megan – we talk about with our students, and finally AI music creation and the philosophy behind it. Let’s get into it.

On today’s episode, we walk through a Nobody & The Computer’s YouTube video on AI sampling and how the music industry will change forever. We also discuss a little research I did this summer on AI and white fragility and how  Jann Wenner’s book, The Masters, is racist and sexist. Let’s get into it.

On today’s episode, we talk about integrating AI into the classroom. We discuss the best ways we would use it and maybe some potential pitfalls. I also recap what I had some KRTU interns from high school produce using google musicLM. Let’s get into it.

On today’s episode, we do a deep dive on another podcast we both listen to called Ghost Notes. They recorded an episode on AI music from the beginning of this year 2023. We just wanted to do an analysis and reaction to their one episode on AI. Let’s get into it.

On today’s episode, we do a deep dive on Meta’s new open source AI music project called Audiocraft. We looked at two specific functions, MusicGen that creates text to music generation and AudioGen that creates text to background sound generation. Let’s get into it.

On today’s episode , we interview Dr. Althea Delwiche, the chair of the Communication Department at Trinity University. We talk about her recent spring class AI and Creative Computing, how to integrate AI into teaching, and how to work with ChatGPT to create better prompts for Google LM. Let’s get into it.

On today’s episode, Frank and Jacob catch up and we finally record our reactions to more AI music including Ghostwriter’s song “Heart on My Sleeve” by AI Drake and The Weeknd, the Travis Scott album created by the pluggin AI Discord entitled UTOP-AI, and finally a little Johnny Cash singing “Barbie Girl”. Let’s get into it.