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And in pretty much every system, too, there's a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

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And in pretty much every system, too, there's a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Is that right? "Don't do music, you're not going to be a musician; don't do art, you won't be an artist."

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And the minute they left the room, she was on her feet, moving to the music. And they watched for a few minutes, and he turned to her mother and said,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Everybody was running around and having fun, but then sometime around 30 it was like the music turned off and everybody started sitting down.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

but believe it or not, you might be better off closing the books, putting away the music, and going to sleep.

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

Maybe you're both cat people, or you both love country music. You both went gorilla trekking in Uganda,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

Actually, I wasn't that sporty when I was a kid. I was much more into music and theater, big hair, big makeup, jazz hands.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

cards from clients, a playlist with some dance-worthy Drake music and a note to myself to always be a light.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

I remember the range of the conversations was immense. The men would talk about politics and sports and music and world news, national news,

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

centuries ago in the deserts of North Africa, people used to gather for these moonlight dances of sacred dance and music that would go on for hours and hours, until dawn.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and the best experiences for their audience. Think about books, articles, music, movies, games, etc. It made and makes a lot of money on the internet.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

and other models can do this for other modalities: code, images, music, all of these are starting to look pretty good.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

An AI image model trained on stock images can create competing stock images. An AI music model trained on music that's licensed to TV shows can create competing music to license to TV shows.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

An AI music model trained on music that's licensed to TV shows can create competing music to license to TV shows. These models, however imperfect,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

For instance, the well-known filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma recently said that he'll use AI music in all his projects going forward. Indeed, there are multiple reports of people starting to listen to AI music

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

that he'll use AI music in all his projects going forward. Indeed, there are multiple reports of people starting to listen to AI music in place of human-produced music,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

Indeed, there are multiple reports of people starting to listen to AI music in place of human-produced music, and recently, an AI song hit number 48 in the German charts.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

and recently, an AI song hit number 48 in the German charts. In all these cases, AI music is competing with the songs it was trained on. Or take Kelly McKernan.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

and last September, my team at Stability AI released an AI music model that trained on licensed music.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

my team at Stability AI released an AI music model that trained on licensed music. A number of other companies have done the same thing,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

We have an AI voice model that's trained on individual voices it's licensed. We have an AI music model that's licensed more than 40 music catalogs. We have a large language model

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

So if you are an advocate for unlicensed AI training, just remember that the people who wrote the music that you are listening to and the books you’re reading

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

I'll start today with some obscure music history. So if you're a David Bowie fan, you may already know this,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

There’s a starman waiting in the sky (Music ends) Now I love Bowie's cover,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

I'd like to start with a question. What is real music? Now this is a question that’s come up with synthesizers,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

Now this is a question that’s come up with synthesizers, with sampling and hip hop music, even with the phonograph, when it first came out in the 1800s,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

people back then debated whether or not reproduced music was real music. John Philip Sousa,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

intelligence and soul.” ... "They reduce the expression of music to a mathematical system." It almost sounds like he's talking about AI, doesn't it?

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

It almost sounds like he's talking about AI, doesn't it? So is AI real music? I believe that when it's in the hands of musicians,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

But first, let me give you some context for why I think that. So I run a parody music social media channel called “There, I Ruined It.”

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

My day job is as an advertising creative director. But the purpose of the channel is to ruin music. Or, as I say, to lovingly destroy your favorite songs.

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

So, for example, here is my cover of the 50 Cent song "In Da Club" as performed by an AI version of country music legend Conway Twitty. (Music)

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

as performed by an AI version of country music legend Conway Twitty. (Music) You can find me in the club, a bottle full of bub

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

“The Red Hot Chili Peppers Make a Grocery List.” (Music: Red Hot Chilli Peppers, “Can’t Stop”) Quinoa, bananas, ravioli

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

In fact, when I first generated that song, it kind of messed with my head a little because I love old music, I perform music from that era,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

it kind of messed with my head a little because I love old music, I perform music from that era, and to hear the pain in that man's voice,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

And to me, that would imply that maybe there's more to music than the music. So is music melody and rhythm and chords,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

that maybe there's more to music than the music. So is music melody and rhythm and chords, or is music expression?

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

So is music melody and rhythm and chords, or is music expression? And to a listener, does it always matter?

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

It gets even messier when you look at the range of ways that AI can be used to create music. So, for example,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

So all this to say, there are a million ways to use AI. The term AI music doesn't really clarify anything. And in fact, even our own lawmakers don't really seem to understand this.

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

And in fact, even our own lawmakers don't really seem to understand this. So there was a recent US congressional hearing on AI music where they played my mashup

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

And I think at the end of the day, even with all of the many downsides of AI messing with our music, I think a lot of artists are discovering the same thing I did,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

sweater or crafting a wooden chair others are doing the same with music in a medieval Church in halberstadt

Leisure

"Thank you" were the two simple words that filled the space between my ears like a music in my head. This was experienced profoundly during the pandemic,

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

when I consumed every man-made material. It was like a music in my mind. Sometimes I said the word "thank you" loudly

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

SA: If you're a musician and you spend your whole life, your whole childhood, listening to music, and then you get an idea and you go compose a song

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

it can be built on and amplified, like, for example, in the music business, there's constant building on one person's work

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

where she didn't love what there was available to eat, the music was not her favorite music, and she wasn't totally sure she felt great about her relationships with people

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

and how that's connected to poetry, to the sea, to rhythm, to music, to meaning, to understanding myself

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

because that means we get liberated so that we can spend time doing art and music and watching, coming to TED.

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

because it's accessible. Not everyone can read music or owns a camera, but everyone can communicate in some way,

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

yet their hope is never trampled, they make music, never sample, and the world's ugly could never cancel

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

I fell in love with poetry, with the rhythms and the music of language; with the power of metaphor and of imagery,

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

I've been working on a project for the last six years adapting children's poetry to music. And that's a poem by Charles Edward Carryl,

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

It is to explain death to a child, and it deserves a piece of plain-song music." And my blood froze when I read that

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

And my blood froze when I read that because I had written the plain-song music 130 years after he'd written the letter.

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

For the first time, my body released its tension. The music, the movement, the discipline, it all gave me consistency.

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

And yet AI now feels like an endless river of creativity, making poetry and images and music and video that stretch the imagination. People said it would never be empathetic.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

but because dematerialization will have taken over fashion. Think about the books that you own, the music that we listen to. They are now in the cloud.

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

of just doing their usual thing of being on their phones or listening to music or reading. It turned out that the people who were assigned to talk to strangers

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

that history makes him seem to be. No. Some of his early critics called his music far too noisy. But Wolfie just brushed that dirt off his shoulder,

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

And as more people identified with hyperpop, more musicians also started making hyperpop music. All the while, the cluster of similar listeners in the algorithm

Why Are People Starting to Sound Like ChatGPT? | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

With thousands of lights on and then off, all in sync. (Music and electric sounds) JA: Now it's around this time

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

JA: Now it's around this time that I would generally bring in the beautiful music, as I just did, and you'd start to get that warm feeling.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

you will hear song after song about Tennessee. (Music) DP: (Singing, various songs) Tennessee, Tennessee... Tennessee homesick ...

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

about the pain he felt leaving his home. And how he hears that in Dolly's music. Then I had a conversation with Dolly where she described her songs

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

Then I had a conversation with Dolly where she described her songs as migration music. Even that classic song,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

And that simple thought led me to a million conversations. I started talking to musicologists about country music as a whole. This genre that I've always felt so

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

with Porter Wagoner. 1967, she joins his band, he is the biggest thing in country music, she is a backup singer, a nobody.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

happened to have English as its official language. She asked if she could listen to what she called my "tribal music," and was consequently very disappointed

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

that was performed in the Lagos hospital last week? What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music, talented people singing in English and Pidgin,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

Well, we used the universal language: music. We launched the Global Citizen Festival

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

was the first time I ever met Jews who were not soldiers. And we connected over really small things, like the fact that I love country music, which is really strange for Palestinians.

For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism? | Aziz Abu Sarah

it was generally a time of cultural tolerance. Muslims and Christians played music together. Jews and Muslims might have a game of chess.

Lessons From History for a Better Future | Roman Krznaric | TED · TED