Last week Paul Pfanner argued the barrier to making anything had fallen away. So he wrote and produced an album in a week to test it, and came back with the harder question waiting on the other side: what part of the work, and what part of him, is still real.

Paul Pfanner on the one thing still standing between you and the work you're here to build.

Bill Sparks reaches back six hundred years to show that every accusation aimed at AI today — "no skill," "no soul," "just pressing a button" — has been leveled at every significant creative technology since the Renaissance.

Modern neuroscience has demolished the myth of the creative genius — and replaced it with something more useful: a system you can actually train. Bill Sparks explains what separates the people who do it consistently from everyone else.