Want to make your own film soundtrack in minutes? Fancy creating a track to help you sleep? With the AI music maker, Jukedeck, this is all possible.
Jukedeck allows anyone to make music. Simply select the genre, such as folk, rock or cinematic; the 'mood', which can be uplifting or aggressive, and the length of time for the track.
In order to have more control over the music, there are options to choose, including 'atmospheric' or 'minimalist' instruments, and even the exact BPM (beats per minute) you want for your song.
An entire soundtrack can be created in minutes with Jukedeck's easy to use controls, and the music this AI creates is completely unique.
Check out 'Erratic Friends', an uplifting pop song, created by the WIRED online team.
Patrick Stobbs co-founded Jukedeck, a startup that has developed an artificially intelligent music composer, a unique system that writes original music completely on its own.
He took to the stage at WIRED Next Generation to explain the possibilities that AI can create for the future.
It feels incredibly easy to use Jukedeck but when the startup began, Stobbs and his co-founder faced a lot of criticism because people disagree with the notion AI can ever be creative.
"Computers can perform repetitive tasks very well, but could it do any more than this?," said Stobbs. "I passionately disagree with this and I want to show how what's possible."
He explained how there is a scientific element in the creative process: it involves immersing yourself in a particular world, assimilating the information, and then using that knowledge and recombining it in different ways to make something new.
"There's no law of physics to say a computer can't form those three steps too," said Stobbs.
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Though the music created by Jukedeck is different to the music created by a human, Stobbs doesn't think this matters: "what matters is the effect."
Humans engage in art and creative works for different reasons, for pleasure, for interest, for education. When you see a musician perform live like Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift, Stobbs explained, you go for the music but you also go for the creative process that you know happens to create that music or art.
The rise of creative and intelligent computers won't spell the end of art, but will instead open up different possibilities.
Stobbs believes creative AI will allow more people to be creative. "We are developing capabilities to allow people who haven't been trained in the world of music to create more intuitive music."
And through this, it will be possible to create some phenomenally new experiences. "When you have a system that can create music from scratch, this can be done incredibly fast. The music created can react to what's going on around us," said Stobbs.
So music created by AI could create the perfect playlist to help you fall asleep, depending on the physiology of your brain, or sense the music you need to help you go for a run.
"AI is becoming creative, but it’s nothing to be feared. It will create a whole new raft of experiences and make anything possible," said Stobbs.
"And", he told the WIRED Next Generation audience, "think hard, as the next generation, about how you can take advantage of that".
This article was originally published by WIRED UK