Gideon: OK. 

Lauren: It’s time for a pop quiz. 

Gideon: Oh no.

Lauren: So you’re the editor in chief right here at WIRED, and you’ve got been speaking loads about AI, so I needed to see how good you’re at telling common human-made music other than AI-generated music. 

Gideon: I imply, I can barely inform music by one human other than one other generally. So, uh, you recognize, you could be disillusioned, however I’ll do my finest. 

Lauren: OK, this is the primary monitor.

[Clip of AI Rihanna singing “Cuff It”]

Lauren: Let’s hear the second. 

[Clip of Beyoncé singing “Cuff It”]

Lauren:  First, I’m curious if you recognize who the artist is.

Gideon: I do not know. None in any way. 

Lauren: Gideon! Not a card-carrying member of the beehive, are you?

Gideon: I’m so not. 

Lauren: That was Beyoncé. 

Gideon: OK. 

Lauren: But which one was truly Beyoncé? 

Gideon: So was a kind of positively AI and the opposite one was actually Beyoncé?

Lauren: Yes. 

Gideon: Uh, wow. Um, I’m gonna say the primary one was AI, simply because I favored the second higher. 

[Correct Answer bell rings] 

Lauren: That is appropriate. 

Gideon: OK. All proper. So style truly performs a component right here. 

Lauren: You get to maintain your job because the editor in chief of WIRED. 

Gideon: Thank God, I used to be so fearful. 

Lauren: What about the second did you want extra?

Gideon: Here, I’m gonna have to make use of like music-y phrases that I do not know the that means of, however I simply felt prefer it was, I do not know, the sounds had been extra balanced in some way. More harmonic, extra … I’m making crap up right here. Uh, I identical to the sounds higher. They felt extra like a thought had gone into that tune.

Lauren: Yep. Fair sufficient. Let’s transfer on to the second pair, which I believe goes to be a bit bit tougher. All proper, this is the primary monitor.

[Clip of “Controlla” by Drake]

Lauren: OK, this is the second.

[Clip of AI Arianna Grande singing “Controlla”]

Gideon: I’m gonna say that the feminine voice is the AI-generated one, simply because it sounded a bit extra Auto-Tuned to me. But actually, in case you’d performed each of these songs someplace and I did not know that one among them needed to be AI generated, I might’ve simply mentioned they had been each human. 

[Correct Answer bell rings]

Lauren: You are appropriate. The feminine voice is AI-generated. The first one was actual. That was truly Drake. 

Gideon: OK. So I could also be utterly ineffective at music, however at the least I can inform an AI from a human after they’re singing. That’s one thing. 

Lauren: Yes. 

Gideon: That’s what the editor of WIRED ought to be capable to do. Right?