The Grammy winner has created scores for many blockbusters including Top Gun: Maverick, Black Widow, Terminator Genisys and several Mission Impossible films. His recent projects include returning to the Bad Boys franchise to create the dramatic soundtrack for the fourth instalment, Bad Boys: Ride Or Die, which sees Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reunite as two detectives in the Miami Police Department. Reflecting on how artificial intelligence (AI) is being introduced into music more, he told the PA news agency: “A piece of music can be created by AI.
“I look at it slightly different, because I just go ‘Well, it’s not something that’s new’. “AI, if it writes a piece of music, it’s based on the past. That’s all it’s able to do.
“So I don’t get worried about that, but it is going to affect the arts significantly. “It’s like looking at a painting, the AI could create it but I’m not interested in it because there’s no backstory to it. There’s no heart.
But then maybe that’s just my generation.” He believes musicians and artists need to embrace the new technology as a means of helping them as he noted how the music world has been dealing with these changes for decades. “When the synthesiser came out, the music union wanted to ban it because they said it was going to replace musicians”, he added.
“And then when samplers came out, everybody was like ‘This is going to replace the orchestra’. There’s always technology that is going to .
