AI and machine learning will make everyone a musician

"Musicians and artists are going to grab what works for them and I predict that the music that will be made will be misunderstood by many people," Eck, told WIRED at Sónar D, a showcase of music, creativity and technology held this week in Barcelona. At the event, which is twinned with the Sónar dance music festival, Google held an AI demonstration where Eck showed a series of basic, yet impressive musical clips produced using machine learning model that was able to predict what note should come next. "In the same way that Instagram has democratised the process of taking and editing photos, we'll see a similar progression towards making more people musical creators – using assertive AI to help people make good music," he told WIRED at a recent talk on AI at the London studio. The move to AI-based music creation tools will be "as big a technological shift as the digitisation of music," he predicted, albeit cautiously.