Sarah Fielding of Engadget reports that YouTube’s first AI-generated music tools can clone artist voices and turn hums into melodies.

The YouTube technology is called Dream Track for Shorts.

The mock-up asks you for a text prompt and then writes lyrics, music and has a voice-cloned artist sing:

YouTube is also testing Music AI Tools:

This is all possible due to Google DeepMind’s Lyria, their most advanced AI music generation model to date.

Cleo Abram also explains the real issue with AI music: When do artists get paid?

My take: AI is just a tool — I use it occasionally and will be exploring it more in 2024. What we as a society really need to figure out is what everyone’s going to do, and how they’ll get (not earn) enough money to live, when AI and Robotics make paid work redundant.