He joins the likes of artists such as Bad Bunny, who recently spoke out against a viral TikTok song that used AI to mimic his voice. In his public resignation letter, Newton-Rex explains that he believes Stability AI has a more "nuanced view" than some of its competitors. Newton-Rex is a published classical composer and founded Jukedeck, which created music using AI, in 2012. He became the product director of TikTok's in-house AI lab after the company purchased Jukedeck in 2019 and subsequently worked at Voicey (acquired by Snap) before joining Stability AI in November 2022. Ironically, there's also been an (as yet unsuccessful) push to protect AI-produced work.

"And of course there was nothing more repellent than the synthesizer," said Morrissey, front man for the Smiths, in a 1983 interview, reflecting the arguments of the day that raged around whether the new electronic instruments of the 1970s qualified as "proper" music. In 1982, a branch of the U.K.'s Musician's Union even tried to ban the use of synths, on the grounds that they were taking work away from musicians who played stringed instruments. Those kinds of arguments may have a parallel today, in 2019, with the emergence of music created with artificial intelligence. Some of the questions (Is this "real" music? Can it compete with human-made melodies? If so, will it put those humans out of a job?) are eerily similar.

When we talk about artificial intelligence, people always tend to think of the only spaces where this tech can replace humans. However, there is another vertical, which is one of those least expected, that AI has influenced in recent times -- Music composition. The music industry has also witnessed tremendous transformations done by AI over the past couple of years -- not only in terms of listening to music but also in terms of how music is made. American singer-songwriter, Taryn Southern in 2017 created a big, moody ballad song Break Free entirely produced by an AI. Not only the song but Southern also went on to create the entire album I AM AI which is the first LP to be entirely composed and produced using AI.

Design outputs made by AI are real. Artificial intelligence is not a foreboding future, it is already the present, and resistance is embarrassing. Advertising is facing an existential crisis fueled by denial and intransigence, and traditional agency CEOs generally regard the machinery around them as alien technology capable of an extinction event. Like every business sector, advertising has been haunted by robots rampaging through departments, decimating jobs, lives and ultimately the life force of the industry: creativity. A therapist might call this catastrophizing, but I'd call it something stronger.

Ed Newton-Rex, who composes for choirs, says JS Bach demonstrated how the greatest creative artists draw on a wide range of qualities. "It wasn't just his knowledge of music, although that was a big part of it," he says. "It was also his fervent religious belief and very high sense of academic rigour." Until machines can encompass these, they are not likely to compose anything rivalling the Goldberg Variations. Nevertheless, as the founder of AI music composer Jukedeck, Newton-Rex thinks computers are capable of creativity.

For K-pop stars used to Pop Idol-style fame factories, Tuesday's concert at Blue Square Concert Hall in Seoul was still an artificial first. The 3,000 screaming fans were real, as were chart-topping, body-popping girl groups Spica and Produce 101 -- but all of the songs were written by a London-based song-bot. Each of the tunes in the set had been composed by Moorgate-based Jukedeck. The artificial intelligence (AI) start-up was founded by 30-year-old former King's College Cambridge choristers Ed Newton-Rex and Patrick Stobbs (Stobbs is also a Google alumnus). Simply, the technology reads music and learns what notes, chords and combinations work in order to generate good music.

At Chordify we love two things: music and technology. Luckily, one does not exclude the other. But, becoming more and more pressing nowadays is the question: will we, humans, become orphaned in the marriage between music and technology? During the Eurosonic Noorderslag conference we presented this question to a panel of experts: Tjeerd Bomhof (lead singer of Voicst and his solo project Dazzled Kid), Colin Benders (from Kyteman), and Matt McVicar (from the British music and artificial intelligence company Jukedeck). The panel is hosted by our own music and technology expert, CEO of Chordify, Bas de Haas.

AI attracts a lot of attention from many different industries, and marketing is no exception. There are a lot of discussions going on about how AI can help companies make their marketing efforts more efficient. When speaking about AI in marketing, the focus is usually on how AI can effectively process big data to make predictions, help marketers save time on repetitive tasks, or drive conclusions from big chunks of data. AI already helps us with automation and making better marketing decisions, so it's safe to say the technology can execute complex analytical tasks. But we all know marketing is not only about crunching data -- it is also about creativity.

It's Christmas Day!! How many carol singers have you encountered so far this? Or how many times have you heard Michael Bublé on repeat? Whilst there's a new Christmas Number One every year, they're never particularly festive thanks to the X-Factor, and no one seems to be dedicating their time to creating a new generation of Christmas classics. What to do when humans are failing at a task? Last Christmas, Researchers from University of Toronto developed an AI system that composes and then sings a Christmas song through analysing an image that you upload.

In late May, a small crowd at St. Dunstan's church in East London's Stepney district gathered for two hours of traditional Irish music. But this event was different; the tunes it featured were composed, in part, by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, dubbed folk-rnn, a stark reminder of how cutting-edge AI is gradually permeating every aspect of human life and culture--even creativity. Developed by researchers at Kingston University and Queen Mary University of London, folk-rnn is one of numerous projects exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative arts. Folk-rnn's performance was met with a mixture of fascination, awe, and consternation at seeing soulless machines conquering something widely considered to be the exclusive domain of human intelligence. But these expeditions are discovering new ways that man and machine can cooperate.