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The world of Artificial Intelligence is advancing at a highly rapid pace.


While there are concerns about jobs being lost, Businessman Gregory Fernandez says, there is also money to be made.


Alicia Boucher has the details from the Movement for Social Justice Tuesday Talk.
Transcript
00:00Businessman Gregory Fernandez, who has been exploring the power of AI in his
00:04business, says computers are now programmed with human knowledge on all
00:08areas, including the creative arts. He admits that jobs will be lost, but there
00:13are also jobs to be gained. Fernandez reveals that he's been using an AI tool
00:17and has spent several months training it to create music, including soca. He now
00:23has around 15 soca songs. Some of them have been played on the radio at this
00:28time. People don't know that it's AI that they're listening to. They're also on
00:34Spotify, which he makes money from. It has been using Bejan Voices and others,
00:42and so I've been training it to use a Trini voice, right? Now again, you can
00:48create your own voices with the AI, but it transforms the whole way you
00:54make music. So for a lot of youths out there, I mean, I'm no musician. There are
00:59many youths out there who play pan and who are into the music. They can read
01:04the music sheets and so on. They can now use this as an opportunity to build
01:11out music, right, and earn revenue. Fernandez provides insight into his
01:19earning, saying so far those songs have generated around 2000 US dollars in
01:24revenue. Every month I earn about 3-400 US on Spotify with my music, right? Now
01:32there's an opportunity. So Young Brother and all of these are on Spotify, right?
01:39And he's earning much more than me, right? So he has some songs with like
01:452 million streams. You get paid by the number of streams, right? And he has a
01:51big social media following. So he has a lot more arm. And for every million
01:56streams, you get about 3-4000 US dollars. He says usually it could take
02:00thousands of dollars to create a song from writing the music to video
02:05production. But for as little as 9 US dollars monthly, many songs can now be
02:11created. Fernandez believes with corporate or government investment in
02:15AI, thousands of jobs can be created for people, including the youth. He says
02:20if the country does not make investments in AI, it will be left
02:24behind at a time that is fast approaching. Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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