Why This Canadian Music Industry Group Sees Potential in AI

Artificial intelligence and music sound like two things that shouldn't have anything in common. To put it simply, music is very much not an artificial thing. On the other hand, there are a ton of benefits to AI that the music industry can benefit from--for one, the issue of music licensing. Perhaps that's why a music industry group is working closely with a university noted for creating an AI-produced Christmas carol. The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) recently announced a partnership with the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab to help deduce new strategies for tackling the increasingly complex problem of music licensing.