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• 🎶 Google’s Text-to-Music AI + Grimes AI Music

• 🎥 Baz Luhrmann Isn’t Afraid of AI (Sorta)

• 🍿 AI Kernels

Google Reveals Text-to-Music AI

AI music is hot right now. So hot that record labels are sending cease & desists to my friends’ AI music websites 😂

But don’t worry AI music fans. Google just opened up access to its text-to-music AI called MusicLM. The tool can turn text descriptions into music. Just write “soulful jazz for a dinner party” and boom you’ve got your own song for your next dinner party.

The difference between Google’s MusicLM and the AI music that’s been floating around the web is that Google’s tool doesn’t generate music with specific artists’ vocals. Sorry no Google AI Drake anytime soon.

Without the clout coming from famous artists, it’s hard to say whether any of the music on Google’s MusicLM will pop off like AI Drake did. Meanwhile, you might remember that cyberpunk artist Grimes told Twitter that producers can get 50% of royalties if they make music with an AI version of her.

Well, the incentives worked. “The bangers are starting to roll in,” said Grimes. Here’s a few of the best AI Grimes I found:

• BLOOD AND MACHINE by @andcelang

• 20 Mins Lil Uzi Vert cover by @Prodbyfalxx

• Child’s Eyes by @nickwebb

So many bangers are being produced that Grimes said, “I am actually kinda stressed that ppl r starting to make competitively (or maybe better??) quality grimes sounding songs than I do but it's also the most wonderfully poetic way to die and respawn in another career.”

Will Google’s MusicLM create any bangers? Will Grimes turn into an open-source AI music project? Who knows, this is AI! Anything can happen.

Director Baz Luhrmann Doesn’t Think AI Will Take His Job

Baz Luhrmann sits on stage talking to a robot painter named Ai-Da. It’s just another day in New York City in 2023.

“I am not afraid of AI,” he said. He then clarified he’s not fearful of AI taking his job as a director, but he’s definitely scared of AI destroying the world. 😮

Despite this, many in the industry are scared of AI taking their jobs. It’s been a huge debate in the current writer’s strike. “There’s understandable fear because when you get this massive change, there’s going to be things caught in the crossfire,” Luhrmann says.

But going back to his Elvis movie, he says, “Austin Butler did not do an impersonation. What he did was Austin Butler’s interpretation of the soul of Elvis Presley. An AI can impersonate, it can’t interpret.”

Is he planning on using AI in his work anytime soon? Well, he actually already did it — he used AI to fade Butler’s face into Presley’s.

As the saying goes, “AI won’t take your job. Someone using AI better than you will.” Pay attention, the best of the best are using AI in all kinds of cool ways.

AI Kernels

Here’s a round-up of interesting news and stories that caught our attention this week:

Google releases Magic Editor for photos. Google’s new magic editor lets you reimagine your photos with AI. Drag and drop people around and watch AI fill in the missing area 🤯 → Google Blog

Want to search through movie stills/screenshots? I just found a new tool dubbed “the search engine for creative people”. Find the perfect image for you to express your ideas and be more efficient in your creative process.→ Flim.ai 

Create children’s stories with AI. Generate a story about your child with your family as characters — add a genre, style, and more. This is unbelievably cool. Could kids be getting personalized movies soon too? → Bedtimestory.ai 

AI-Themed Content of the Week

Every week, we’ll hit you with a piece of content centered around AI. It might be a book, movie, whatever.

Life 3.0 is one of the craziest books I ever read. The intro will blow your mind.

The book is by an MIT scientist, and is all about artificial general intelligence (AGI) and what the future looks like.