Things are moving quickly beyond Ableton Assistant. With Apple’s new Siri AI in macOS beta 27 we have the perfect agent to allow musicians and creatives to use Siri to get everyday things done in a DAW.
Apple has been a late comer to all this AI stuff, but maybe they were just watching and waiting ?
AI is incredibly powerful technology with the potential to shape society in profound ways, and, with proper care, unlock meaningful benefits for people everywhere.
Still, some appear to be racing forward, seemingly pursuing AI, for the sake of AI, without clear regard for the people, all of us, that it’s ultimately meant to serve.
At Apple, our mission has always been to turn the potential of advanced technology into helpful and intuitive products for everyone.
As a DJ and musician with over 30 years of experience I noticed a reduction in the quality of music in the dance music field from about 2006 onwards. There are many reasons for this that I won’t get into here, but suffice to say I believe enabling Siri AI to act as an assistant for the musician, using any DAW, could really help enable people’s creativity. Human creativity. As Apple so aptly point out we are the people, we are “all of us” ! Here’s a quote from my first year essay …
“I didn’t want there to be a revolution of technology, I wanted to revolutionise my soul to be more symbiotic with everything. The future can’t just be technology; that would be a dangerous future.” (Turner 2021: 21).
I’m looking forward to presenting these idea’s to Apple and finding out the best way to implement this.
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