Gideon: OK.
Lauren: It is time for a pop quiz.
Gideon: Oh no.
Lauren: So you’re the editor in chief right here at WIRED, and you have been speaking quite a bit about AI, so I needed to see how good you might be at telling common human-made music other than AI-generated music.
Gideon: I imply, I can barely inform music by one human other than one other typically. So, uh, you realize, you could be upset, however I’ll do my finest.
Lauren: OK, this is the primary monitor.
[Clip of AI Rihanna singing “Cuff It”]
Lauren: Let’s hear the second.
[Clip of Beyoncé singing “Cuff It”]
Lauren: First, I am curious if you realize who the artist is.
Gideon: I don’t know. None in anyway.
Lauren: Gideon! Not a card-carrying member of the beehive, are you?
Gideon: I’m so not.
Lauren: That was Beyoncé.
Gideon: OK.
Lauren: However which one was truly Beyoncé?
Gideon: So was a type of undoubtedly AI and the opposite one was actually Beyoncé?
Lauren: Sure.
Gideon: Uh, wow. Um, I am gonna say the primary one was AI, simply because I appreciated the second higher.
[Correct Answer bell rings]
Lauren: That’s appropriate.
Gideon: OK. All proper. So style truly performs an element right here.
Lauren: You get to maintain your job because the editor in chief of WIRED.
Gideon: Thank God, I used to be so anxious.
Lauren: What about the second did you want extra?
Gideon: Right here, I am gonna have to make use of like music-y phrases that I do not know the which means of, however I simply felt prefer it was, I do not know, the sounds have been extra balanced one way or the other. Extra harmonic, extra … I am making crap up right here. Uh, I similar to the sounds higher. They felt extra like a thought had gone into that track.
Lauren: Yep. Truthful sufficient. Let’s transfer on to the second pair, which I feel goes to be a little bit bit more difficult. All proper, this is the primary monitor.
[Clip of “Controlla” by Drake]
Lauren: OK, this is the second.
[Clip of AI Arianna Grande singing “Controlla”]
Gideon: I am gonna say that the feminine voice is the AI-generated one, simply because it sounded a little bit extra Auto-Tuned to me. However actually, for those who’d performed each of these songs someplace and I did not know that considered one of them needed to be AI generated, I might’ve simply stated they have been each human.
[Correct Answer bell rings]
Lauren: You’re appropriate. The feminine voice is AI-generated. The primary one was actual. That was truly Drake.
Gideon: OK. So I could also be fully ineffective at music, however not less than I can inform an AI from a human after they’re singing. That is one thing.
Lauren: Sure.
Gideon: That is what the editor of WIRED ought to be capable of do. Proper?
