Björn von Abba: Better songs with AI than with musicians
Munich
Abba musician Björn Ulvaeus believes that artificial intelligence can write better music than many humans over time.
Previously, during an appearance at the DLD innovation conference in Munich, he pointed out that up to 100,000 songs and other recordings had come to the Spotify streaming service every day in the past year. “Don’t you think artificial intelligence will be able to write better music than a lot of those 100,000 songs a day?” he later asks. “It will happen. I’m afraid it will happen.”
So far mainly support for the composers
Software that can automatically generate at least parts of songs is already being used in music production. So far, it has primarily been seen as a tool to support composers. Ulvaeus, in a dig at today’s music world, doubted there was enough quality control. “I’ve been working hard on recognizing trash.” When he and his Abba partner Benny Andersson composed songs, “we threw away about 95 percent of what we wrote”. He rhetorically considers how many of the authors of the millions of new songs dealt with “garbage” in a similarly rigorous manner.
Ulvaeus used his DLD appearance to appeal for support for Ukraine. “The brave Ukrainians are fighting for freedom,” he said. And not just for yourself, “but also for us”.
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