In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy
Presented by Deel Lucas Cantor: “I Don’t Think Anybody Knows What AI Is”
Show Host Georgie Healy Podcast Host, Google for Startups “I don’t think anybody knows what AI is.”
Lucas Cantor has an unusual claim on the AI conversation. In 2019, Huawei asked him to finish Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony using artificial intelligence, and he did it. He’s an Emmy-winning composer who has worked on every Olympics since 2002, produced a cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World with Lorde, and now invests in music technology. His new book is Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
In this episode Georgie Healy gets Lucas to take apart the story we’re all being told about AI: why he thinks nobody actually knows what the term even means, why every person he asks assumes AI can do the job they’re not an expert in and can’t do the job they are, why the claim that AI democratises creativity is a fallacy sold by AI companies, why B2B SaaS isn’t dead, and why the music industry — supposedly murdered by Napster — is bigger now than it was before.
If you build, market or operate anything, this is a useful hour of pressure-testing. Lucas isn’t a doomer and he isn’t an evangelist — he’s someone who has been inside the technology long enough to tell the difference between what it does and what it’s sold as. Recorded ahead of his first trip to Australia for BIGSOUND (1–4 September, Brisbane).
About the guest
Lucas Cantor is an Emmy-winning composer, author and music-technology investor. His book is Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
About the show
In The Blink Of AI is hosted by Georgie Healy and produced by Day One®.
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