AI appears to be seeping into each aspect of society today, however that might not be the case in communities the place English isn’t the dominant language. Spotify is working to appropriate that by providing a Spanish-speaking model of its DJ characteristic.
Spotify introduced the brand new Spanish talking characteristic for its DJ mode also referred to as Xavier or “X” on Wednesday. The brand new DJ is called Livi and Spotify has even given its new DJ a backstory describing her as a “Senior Music Editor at Spotify primarily based out of Mexico Metropolis” and “a music knowledgeable who has spent her complete profession within the music trade.
It’s mainly a cruder model of how Jon Hamm can digitally assign backgrounds and views to “cookies” in Black Mirror’s Christmas episode. Does this imply X and Livia will begin screaming if we play Wizzard’s “I Want It Might Be Christmas On a regular basis” on an infinite loop?
DJ is an AI generated record of curated songs primarily based on a Spotify consumer’s listening historical past. The DJ characteristic additionally consists of an AI voice introducing and commenting on a number of the songs it picks identical to a radio DJ would besides this DJ performs songs you really need to hear. The music streaming service launched DJ final 12 months utilizing OpenAI. Six months later, Spotify expanded DJ’s attain to 50 international locations however solely in English.
Spotify’s DJ can be beginning to get some competitors. YouTube Music simply introduced its personal AI-generated conversational DJ radio generator for choose customers. In the event that they don’t name him “YouGene,” then they’re lacking out on pure pun gold.