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Google lists Spotify as a partner for Bard AI

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Google just listed Spotify as one of the first partners set to use its artificial intelligence (AI) "Bard" technology at its I/O developer conference.

Google vice president Sissie Hsiao revealed the news during the conference’s opening keynote, with the music streaming service appearing in a slide listing a number of the first firms set to get a Bard extension.

Google didn’t elaborate on the nature of its partnership with Spotify, but Hsiao did show it being used in Adobe Firefly to generate completely new images. Specifically, it showed the tool using Firefly to create a custom birthday picture featuring a unicorn and cake, based on commands from Hsiao.

We’ve already seen many AI technologies used in music outside of Bard, including in the writing of lyrics to entire songs so that they sound as if they were written by famous artists. Nick Cave famously lambasted the lyrics written by an AI in “his style”.

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Alastair is What Hi-Fi?’s editor in chief. He has well over a decade’s experience as a journalist working in both B2C and B2B press. During this time he’s covered everything from the launch of the first Amazon Echo to government cyber security policy. Prior to joining What Hi-Fi? he served as Trusted Reviews’ editor-in-chief. Outside of tech, he has a Masters from King’s College London in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion, is an enthusiastic, but untalented, guitar player and runs a webcomic in his spare time.