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will.i.am is not as worried about AI and artists. Speaking to Katie Prescott on The Times Tech podcast he says the "creatives will be alright," but he's concerned about "the assistants, the sales clerks, the lawyers, the accountants." As musicians, publishers and Silicon Valley debate over whether AI should be allowed to train on creative work, the Black Eyed Peas musician and tech investor offers a different take. He says music has always borrowed from what came before – from samplers to bass lines and rhymes. So what changes when machines start borrowing too? ...
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This episode of the Times Tech Podcast is sponsored by KPMG. Katie, we've been tracking the AI surge for a while, but some of the latest data is pretty striking. It is. KPMG's latest quarterly AI pulse suggests that 7 in 10 UK business leaders
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