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Artificial Intelligence

NashVillager Podcast: Tech’s influence on the classroom

Nina CardonaandAlexis Marshall

August 6, 2024

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Is generative AI a boon or a burden for education? Plus the local news for August 6, 2024.

Filed Under: Education, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence

With help from AI, Randy Travis got his voice back. Here’s how his first song post-stroke came to be.

Maria Sherman, AP

May 11, 2024

With artificial intelligence, country music star Randy Travis has his voice back. In 2013, the Travis was hospitalized with viral cardiomyopathy and later suffered a stroke. He now has aphasia, a condition that limits his ability to speak. It’s why his wife Mary Travis assists him in interviews. It’s also why he hasn’t released new music in over a decade, until now.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Associated Press, country music, music

NashVillager Podcast: Competing strategies for improving education in Tennessee

Alexis Marshall

May 7, 2024

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How would Mayor O’Connell’s transit proposal affect bike infrastructure in Nashville? Plus your local newscast for May 6, 2024.

Filed Under: Education, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, charter schools, philanthropy, school vouchers, Standardized testing

AI music isn’t going away. Here are 4 big questions about what’s next.

jewly hight

April 25, 2024

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Tennessee just passed the first U.S. law regulating generative AI in music. But the technology, adept at copying real artists’ voices and styles, is moving too quickly for one law to keep up with.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, music, NPR

Nashville tech startup provides new licensing and tracking tools for the AI era

jewly hight

March 18, 2024

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In the age of generative AI, the music business is becoming something much closer to a tech business. Now a new Nashville tech startup called ViNIL has rolled out a digital licensing and tracking service that wouldn’t have been needed just a few years ago.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, music industry, startup, technology

Tennessee proposal aims to protect musicians from AI voice impersonation

jewly hight

January 11, 2024

It’s not every day that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee convenes a who’s who of the state’s music industry. But he did on Wednesday at historic RCA Studio B to announce that Tennessee will be the first state to pursue legislation on artificial intelligence in music. 

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, Artificial Intelligence, Bill Lee, music industry

What does AI music mean for Nashville?

Magnolia McKay

May 25, 2023

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Advances in AI technology have been surfacing in all manners of media — from visual art to written word. One application of Artificial Intelligence that has Nashvillians speculating is the use of AI in music.

Filed Under: @Us, Programs Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence

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