You’d have to be living under a rock to not be affected, or at the very least intrigued, by the advancements in artificial intelligence.
Commonly abbreviated simply as A.I., the countless possibilities that can be provided when operating the technology in any field has already proven to change both productivity and output in record numbers. Term paper due? Let a computer-generated app type a four-page thesis as you sit back and read it into your phone. For writers, transcribing has become a way less tedious part of the job now that AI-generated programs can do in seconds what would take a trained human professional hours to accomplish at “three sentences per minute.”
The music industry is seeing things change at far greater rates, some instances more nefarious than others. Recent computer-generated cover songs by Rihanna and Drake that neither pop star ever sang in real-life have left fans in disbelief. In the case of veteran producer Timbaland, well, the ruling is still up for debate. He recently hopped on social media to announce a “solution” to the concerns of A.I.’s affect on the music industry, but not before debuting a new collaboration he cooked up with the very-deceased rap icon The Notorious B.I.G.
Take a listen below to be a judge for yourselves:
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“I always wanted to work with B.I.G, but I never got a chance to,” said the all-star producer for music icons like Jay-Z, Aaliyah and recent Rock Hall Of Fame inductee Missy Elliott. Timbaland and Biggie had merely a few months to get a collaboration off the floor in real life before the latter’s untimely murder on March 9, 1997. Timb’s groundbreaking production first took off in 1996 with the summer and fall R&B releases of Aaliyah’s One In A Million and Ginuwine’s The Bachelor, respectively, giving him just enough momentum to catch the ear of the industry at large. However, it wouldn’t be until…
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