00:00 >> Great to be here. My name is Mikey. I love music. I love technology. It's probably why
00:06 I'm here. I don't have a ton of time, but I thought I would just grab our homepage and
00:13 refresh it and listen to a song that was made today by someone who is not necessarily used
00:17 to making music but who has found this passion very recently. I don't know who this Oliver
00:22 McMahon person is, but it's gotten 150,000 plays. I have not played this yet. Live demos
00:28 never go well, but we're going to try it together.
00:30 >> Oh, my love.
00:32 >> Go get her. Go.
00:34 >> My friend, you know.
00:36 >> This is a song made by someone who does not make music, who has tastes, who loves
00:44 it, who finds it as an outlet, who loves sharing it with people, who loves the process of making
00:49 it. This is something that can bring joy to people who are not used to being creators.
00:54 I can tell you I am a decidedly mediocre musician, and this is a really addicting type of a thing.
01:01 And so I think people talk a lot about AI being an enabler of creativity. I think music
01:08 is really, really special. If you walk down the street and you stop some random person,
01:14 they probably can't make music, but I promise you they have very specific tastes in music.
01:18 And this is not true for other things like text. If you stop a random person, they probably
01:23 can write and they probably don't have well-developed tastes in literature. And so music is this
01:28 really resonant thing that I think is inside all of us. And so this is the coolest part
01:33 of my job, and I have a really cool job, is making music with people. So I will ask people
01:37 to shout out styles of music that you like, and we will make a song together with I don't
01:41 know how many people are here, 200. Somebody shout something out.
01:44 >> Jazz.
01:46 >> Okay. Jazz. Reggae.
01:49 >> Beatles.
01:51 >> I can't. EDM. Okay. A jazz, reggae, EDM pop song about imagination.
01:58 >> Bossa nova.
02:00 >> Yeah, why not? Bossa nova. Events. And I don't think this is a genre you're going
02:10 to find on Spotify, jazz, reggae, EDM, pop, bossa nova, but this is something that exists
02:16 in all of our heads and there's some manifestation of all of this stuff together and we can kind
02:21 of discover it together as a group. I think music is like the most socially resonant form
02:27 of art. When you listen to a piece of music with someone, you listen to it simultaneously
02:31 with them. That is not the case if you look at a piece of visual art. And so let's listen.
02:37 [ Music ]
03:03 >> I can't actually hear it. Hopefully somebody hears it. Let's try that last one with bossa.
03:10 Maybe this is too many generations.
03:13 [ Music ]
03:30 >> Very quickly what we realize is people get drawn into this. They'll start to want
03:34 to change the lyrics. They'll start to want to change the style. They'll start to want
03:37 to bring this to someone and do it with a friend. And it is something that spreads an
03:42 immense amount of joy. I don't pretend to be curing cancer, but this is something that
03:50 just makes everybody smile and that makes it such a cool part of my job. I have a minute
03:54 and a half left and I thought I would just end on something very personal. This is a
03:59 song made by some creator that I've never met. It is a German lead. It's not a particular
04:05 style of music that I like. It is in Estonian, not a language that I speak. And I can't
04:11 exactly describe why this is so resonant with me, but it is. And I think of all the plays
04:16 that this piece of music has gotten, I'm probably 90% of them because I listen to this piece
04:20 a lot. And I just thought I would play it for everybody here to realize that it is really
04:25 uninspired to take this new technology and jam it into the old thing, which is to say
04:29 just make AI-powered streaming music services. But if we can build a tool to let me expand
04:34 my own tastes, to expand how I interact with music, to find things that I never would have
04:39 even really thought about before, it really is kind of expanding what everybody can do
04:44 with music. And so in the last 30 seconds, I'll play it. It's not like a banger by any
04:48 means, but it's amazing in my opinion.
04:51 [Music]
04:58 [Singing in Estonian]
05:03 [Music]
05:31 I will spare you all the details. This is a very long piece of music. It's something
05:34 that I listen to a ton. And I would encourage you, it doesn't even have to be on our tool.
05:38 You can go see it at snoodog.com. But just making music a bigger part of your everyday,
05:43 I promise you will bring you joy and make you smile. So thank you.
05:46 [Applause]
05:51 [Music]
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