My son who is now 37, has been playing in bands of various genres in Ballarat and Melbourne since he was 16. He came home for Easter and said to me "have a look at this"
It was a "band" called Fossils 1969. They are on Spotify as an "artist" It is 100% ai. No musicians needed. Apparently, you subscribe to an ai music website and say "make me an album like 1960s psychedelic" or an 1980s country album or a jazz album and it will do it. Once you have the album, you can say "make the snare louder" "make the bass smoother" etc. and it will do it.No music talent needed. My son said musicians are a dying race. The only musicians that will survive, will be a hand full that can fill medium size venues or mega stars that fill stadiums.
It leads to a bigger conversation on how ai will change the world. Any white collar job, will be under threat. For example, my son's partner works from home and does data entry for companys like Toll, Linfox and DHL. He reckons her job will be replaced by ai in the next twelve months.
Check out Fossil 1969, you"ll be suprised. Remember, it's all fake!
AI is not going to be the be all end all wiz bang wonder of the world all these tech bros want us to believe it is.when all these people loose their jobs, and they will, and can't find another job, and they won't and won't have any money, and they won't, how are they going to pay for anything. Food, clothing, bills, with zero income as welfare won't be able to pay for it. Ai doesn't need rest, doesn't need get paid,, just goes along doing its thing. These tech bros just want their money to do all that. All those in any area at this time that can only be done by actual human input will be safe, only for this time. There will come a time when even those jobs will begin to be taken over. It will happen. Maybe not in my lifetime, what's left of it, but certainly in my grandsons time. I think a lot of us underestimate just how unknown we look at AI and how will control the future. As science fiction has always been fiction untill it's not.
