In 2018, the late avant-garde pop star and producer SOPHIE conducted her first-ever filmed interview. Her conversation partner, courtesy of Dazed magazine’s “Age of AI” campaign, was Sophia, a speaking, articulating robot created by the Hong Kong company Hanson Robotics. The series was devoted to pursuing answers about AI’s impending influence on artistic fields, and SOPHIE took the opportunity to ask Sophia about the technology’s relationship to creativity and its impact on making music. “I believe we should be teaching AI to be creative, just as humans do for their children,” the robot replied. “The best artificial intelligences in creative fields will probably be under partnerships with humans. … We don’t truly understand the inner workings of the human mind, so I don’t expect such a beautiful thing as creativity to be perfectly replicated. Just simulated.” In 2025, Sophia’s vision is starting to come into focus. Many operators have been working tirelessly in recent years to bring some kind of AI model to the pop sphere, and at the front of the pack this year is the rap producer Timbaland.
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