Cowriting an Album With AI

Why a neural net is like ‘a chain of guitar pedals’

Clive Thompson
OneZero
Published in
13 min readOct 28, 2021

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Robin Sloan and Jesse Solomon Clark of “The Cotton Modules”

These days, artificial intelligence is showing off its creative chops.

GPT-2 and GPT-3 generate text so well that people are using them to author text-adventure games and books of poetry. Visual artists are using image-generation AI to create neural-net paintings. You can create utterly photorealistic

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Clive Thompson
OneZero

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net