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From ‘The Last Archive’: Building an Automatic Songwriting Machine

From ‘The Last Archive’: Building an Automatic Songwriting Machine

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We’re bringing you an episode of The Last Archive from our friends at Pushkin Industries. In this episode: an exploration of early artificial intelligence, the story of the composer Raymond Scott’s lifelong quest to build an automatic songwriting machine, and what it means for our own AI-addled, ChatGPT.



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