To use a computer in 1983, you had to spend hours memorizing obscure commands.

In 1984 when the Macintosh launched with a mouse and keyboard, you could skip the hours of learning technical jargon.

It made computers intuitive and visual rather than daunting and technical.

40 years later, the way we interact with computers hasn’t changed.

AI is to creative output as the GUI is to computers

Today’s “the world just changed” example is about AI-generated music.

AI-generated music is really good now.

But don’t worry… music isn’t dead.

It’s just getting started.

Say hello to Udio, your free music-producing assistant who can make any genre of music you want. You can have it auto-generate lyrics for you and you can even write your own lyrics.

I wrote some lyrics and told Udio to turn it into a 90s RnB song.

The result 👇

Quiet Night (Out Of Sight) [Full RnB Song] 

Lyrics to follow along 👇

I also wrote a country song about how a construction man wears Carhartt because he’s working on himself 😂😂😂

Carhartt (Workin’ On Myself)

So, What Now?

AI emilinates the need to learn a music program to make some cool music.

It took me about 75 different tries to make a handful of songs that don’t sound like they were made by a machine.

The important part is that the songs that sound decent, really do sound decent for a song created by a young man in his kitchen guiding a computer by talking to it in plain-english sentences.

Let’s be honest. Most of the music that comes from the AI isn’t going to end up in people’s playlists.

Udio makes snippets at 30 seconds long, and many of the results just aren’t good.

Right now, you don’t have much control over the output outside of slightly remixing it or simply getting another output.

Most of the instruments are at the same volume, so the songs lack character and emotion. The phrasing of the lyrics sometimes goes off the rails. Sometimes the AI skips words you’ve written.

But that will all be fixed, likely in the next few years and the world will get much more great music.

Prediction: In the next 5 years, there will be a music creation program that enables you to generate music by guiding it with English prompts, then gives you finite control over the output by adjusting notes, instruments, volume, and anything else you want to change about the track.

When that program comes out, your ability to know what’s “good” (aka tastemaking) and your ability to storytell will matter much more than your technical ability.

This is your opportunity to be a first mover in a wildly exciting paradigm shift of AI-guided music creation.

If music is something you enjoy, you’d be shooting yourself in the foot by not using all the free credits Udio gives you (enough ot generate over 1,000 thirty second snippets)