Okay, so this is the um,
the team uniform.
This is actually a 1972
Australian Olympic jersey.
The mask has been 3D printed
for a grand total of about,
four bucks plus ten dollars worth
of glitter.
These are the mad scientists
of the Australian music industry.
Charlton Hill was a child actor
who toured the world as a
singer-songwriter.
While Justin Shave has produced
a string of platinum records,
working with artists like Sia,
and The Potbelleez.
Together, they started
Uncanny Valley Studio
and are focusing their efforts on
a new type of artist.
We very much think it's time to
rage with the machine.
Yeah.
The network in the Netherlands
called VPRO put out a call for
interest and submissions to the
AI song contest.
The idea is to put a lot of data
into the computer and see
if it can generate ideas or
perhaps melodies or lyrics for
an Eurovision kind of song.
There's actually 13 teams
who've tried this and
the results are so different.
So I'll morph it out of that
robot voice into the production
work that we did to show how it
happens.
When ours came up with some...
pretty bonkers kind of stuff,
we left a lot of it in because -
perfect Eurovision.
It's perfect Eurovision.
We wanted a song that
AI assisted with but then
could still be broken back down
to a guitar at a campfire and
say hey, here's that song,
oh, I love that song!
You know,
and it's the broken down
version of that song.
Lyrics don't make any sense
but we'll sing it around the
campfire anyway.
Oh, but you know!
So, what does it take to write
a Eurovision-winning song?
If I could tell you that,
I'd probably be a very rich man.
You just gotta try.
You got to try some things.
AI doesn't necessarily have to
live in a loft and
eat beans for weeks to
write the song.
Instead, they worked with a team of
computer scientists to take the
music and lyrics from past
Eurovision songs
and feed them into two
separate AI computers.
We have listened to all the
combinations of
lyrics and melodies that the
computer generated.
It was about 500, I think.
Suddenly, the chorus
popped out of us.
We went, oh my god.
That's the chorus.
Judging will be 50% public vote
and 50% a judging panel,
made up of some of the
most notable names in
the AI community.
They will really judge based on
the use of AI,
was it created using AI,
and how much AI is being used.
On the other hand,
the audience will judge based on
is this a good song or not?
In terms of topping my
career achievements,
I say, yes definitely
this is number one right now,
in my life.
We're only as good as your
last song!
If it leads to a new way of
thinking around music,
and there's a whole new generation
of composers that use AI then,
bring it on.
