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

We’re bringing you an episode of The Last Archive (pushkin.fm/podcasts/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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