Derek Thompson

And a point that you made that I think is really important is that if I use a Spotify link in my commercial, that is, if I make commercial use of a song, I have to pay the person who owns the song.

And a point that you made that I think is really important is that if I use a Spotify link in my commercial, that is, if I make commercial use of a song, I have to pay the person who owns the song.

And a point that you made that I think is really important is that if I use a Spotify link in my commercial, that is, if I make commercial use of a song, I have to pay the person who owns the song.

But these AI companies are, in a weird way, making commercial use of music, not by copying it, but rather by putting it into this weird black box where inspiration and theft and synthesis is all mixed up and jumbled. So how do you think these questions ought to be resolved?

But these AI companies are, in a weird way, making commercial use of music, not by copying it, but rather by putting it into this weird black box where inspiration and theft and synthesis is all mixed up and jumbled. So how do you think these questions ought to be resolved?

But these AI companies are, in a weird way, making commercial use of music, not by copying it, but rather by putting it into this weird black box where inspiration and theft and synthesis is all mixed up and jumbled. So how do you think these questions ought to be resolved?

I want to hold in this image of a black box. In your radio segment, you had a very beautiful yet strange insight. You said people don't know how their favorite songs were made. But musicians also don't know how the process of writing music works. Musicians aren't conscious of what they're doing. They mess around. They discover the song at their fingertips, at the tip of their tongue.

I want to hold in this image of a black box. In your radio segment, you had a very beautiful yet strange insight. You said people don't know how their favorite songs were made. But musicians also don't know how the process of writing music works. Musicians aren't conscious of what they're doing. They mess around. They discover the song at their fingertips, at the tip of their tongue.

I want to hold in this image of a black box. In your radio segment, you had a very beautiful yet strange insight. You said people don't know how their favorite songs were made. But musicians also don't know how the process of writing music works. Musicians aren't conscious of what they're doing. They mess around. They discover the song at their fingertips, at the tip of their tongue.

They're just sort of guessing what the next note is. Those are your words. They're guessing what the next note is. You must have been aware when you said that how close to the bone that description of creativity is to generative AI, which is often described as prediction, next token prediction. And it raises a really interesting question about creativity.

They're just sort of guessing what the next note is. Those are your words. They're guessing what the next note is. You must have been aware when you said that how close to the bone that description of creativity is to generative AI, which is often described as prediction, next token prediction. And it raises a really interesting question about creativity.

They're just sort of guessing what the next note is. Those are your words. They're guessing what the next note is. You must have been aware when you said that how close to the bone that description of creativity is to generative AI, which is often described as prediction, next token prediction. And it raises a really interesting question about creativity.

I don't even know if there's a true psychology of creativity yet, but certainly the philosophy of creativity. As a musician who uses AI, Do you see a profound similarity between your creation process of listening, remembering, creating, and the creation process of artificial intelligence, which is pre-trained, has a memory of sorts, and synthesizes that memory in response to prompts?

I don't even know if there's a true psychology of creativity yet, but certainly the philosophy of creativity. As a musician who uses AI, Do you see a profound similarity between your creation process of listening, remembering, creating, and the creation process of artificial intelligence, which is pre-trained, has a memory of sorts, and synthesizes that memory in response to prompts?

I don't even know if there's a true psychology of creativity yet, but certainly the philosophy of creativity. As a musician who uses AI, Do you see a profound similarity between your creation process of listening, remembering, creating, and the creation process of artificial intelligence, which is pre-trained, has a memory of sorts, and synthesizes that memory in response to prompts?

How do you think this is going to change the process of the experience of making music? It seems to me like in a world where you don't have these kind of automatic feedback loops from an AI, independent, alone music writers are living inside their head, waiting for something to happen, waiting to hear it, and that feedback loop is entirely internal, right?

How do you think this is going to change the process of the experience of making music? It seems to me like in a world where you don't have these kind of automatic feedback loops from an AI, independent, alone music writers are living inside their head, waiting for something to happen, waiting to hear it, and that feedback loop is entirely internal, right?

How do you think this is going to change the process of the experience of making music? It seems to me like in a world where you don't have these kind of automatic feedback loops from an AI, independent, alone music writers are living inside their head, waiting for something to happen, waiting to hear it, and that feedback loop is entirely internal, right?

They have an instinct, the instinct is represented by a sound of the piano or the guitar or voice, then they have taste, they judge the sound, and then they adopt or they change or they keep going.

They have an instinct, the instinct is represented by a sound of the piano or the guitar or voice, then they have taste, they judge the sound, and then they adopt or they change or they keep going.