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

    FromDecoder Ring

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    Length:
    54 minutes
    Released:
    May 1, 2024
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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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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    Released:
    May 1, 2024
    Format:
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    Decoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.