Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Pierre Barreau (@aivatechnology) is an entrepreneur, computer scientist, composer and director and the CEO of AIVA, an artificial intelligence that composes incredibly emotional and beautiful music and soundtracks. He was nominated for a Gold Panda Award in the "Best Director" category when he was 15 years old for a four-film documentary series, One Night in the Cosmos and gave a very popular TED Talk in 2018.

Full episode ---- https://disruptors.fm/126-ai-created-hans-zimmer-compositions-deep-fakes-the-future-of-art-pierre-barreau

In today's episode we discuss:

- The future of AI composed music
- How creativity and art evolve with AI inspiration and automation
- Is AGI achievable and what about timelines
- Will automation lead to more or less jobs on net
- The double-edged sword of tech and artificial intelligence
- What to do about deep fakes and fake news
- Why social media and surveillance capitalism are so dangerous
- What Mozart did better than anyone else
- Thoughts about Asimov's three laws and AI containment
- What it takes to create Hans Zimmer quality compositions
- The truth about AI personality
- Is conscious AI inevitable
- Thoughts on the uncanny valley and human values


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