Music-Making Artificial Intelligence is Getting Scary Good

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Transcript

Allison Parshall: As a kid, I was something of a composer. Please brace yourself for Mozart-level brilliance.

[CLIP: Parshall family home video of toddler Allison playing a tiny keyboard and singing, mostly gibberish]

Parshall: As you can hear, I was a lyrical genius. And I did stick with it.

In high school I made a song entirely with homemade instruments that involved water, including hitting half-full wine glasses with chopsticks and water drumming—you know, when you get…