Will AI Take over the Club or Mobile DJ's Job Comments Please from Club and Mobile DJ's

0:00 It's been a while and I'm gone away

All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's been a while and I'm gone away. But firstly, I'm going to be starting, I'm going to start to do all my old videos again. I think the reason is, is a couple of people have messaged me, emailed, and said that they can't find many of my old videos. Now, it could be because of the algorithms, because they're old, and they just get washed away amongst... The billions of other videos. I mean, if you do some research that there are for every second of the day, there's so many hours worth of content put on YouTube. So if you put that into the equation, you may find that it's getting more difficult to find videos. So in other words, if you imagine a big container full of water and I've got a drop.

In that water, yet more water is being added all the time. So of course that drops getting smaller and smaller. So I am going to start uploading more videos, more up-to-date using up-to-date kit. Anyway, I want to talk a little bit about AI, artificial intelligence, and how potentially this could or could not, couldn't take over the DJ industry. Basically, could AI take over your job, whether you're a mobile DJ or you are, for that matter, a club DJ? Now, first of all, a club DJ, it may be slightly easier. And there is a logical reason for that, that I'm sure will become apparent while I'm even saying it. But in a nightclub, the kit's there, everything's there. It doesn't have to be driven, delivered.

2:01 Take over a club venue

Set up, it's already there. Whereas a mobile DJ, you're in all manner of venues. So unless that venue's actually got kit, then it's not going to happen. So how could potentially AI... Take over a club venue. Well, first of all, like I said, the kit's there, the lighting, the PA, the venue itself, the bar, it's all there. So what do you need? You need, of course, a good kind of Wi-Fi, definitely good internet. And also then you're probably thinking, yeah, well, that's all well and good. Well, who's going to do the DJing? Well, let's be honest with robotics getting so much better at the moment now, Imagining that they're pressing... Oh, by the way, I've got bitten by... Look at that hand! I got bitten by a wasp or something like that, or stung, should I say. And yes, I am having antihistamines. Anyway, back to the subject. So you've got the likes of a robot there and the robot is watching the dance floor and all this potentially can happen.

Watching the reaction from the dance floor and being able to play music according to the venue's requirements and how the dance floor is reacting. But I don't think, right, I mean again please leave a comment because this is really important to get your reaction. Now as a DJ and predominantly mobile but I have done the occasional club work in the past You can't get away from that gut feeling of how the dance floor is reacting and what's going on. So in other words, what I'm saying here is that as in the past a club DJ, you're there and you're playing a track and even halfway through the track, you get the feeling that the crowd maybe aren't liking it that much and a few people walk away. You know to bring something else in that will bring the track back. Now, a lot of that is to do with the music and the energy the music gives you. And again, small caveat here, you have major and minor. Major keys are more moody, more deep, like your A2 and your A3. They've got that kind of feel of just deepness. Whereas the major keys...

4:24 A more uplifting and vibrant

A more uplifting and vibrant. So again, if you want to bring some more euphoria into the room, then you tend to want to play the more tracks that are in the major key. So I personally don't think AI is that intelligent yet to actually dig into the psychology of the crowd because there is a psychology. Like I said in the past, a good analogy for you For a DJ, in any way, shape or form, and again, quote me here, tell me if I'm right or wrong in a comment, but imagine a swimming pool. The water in the swimming pool is still, and you have one person one side, the DJ, one person or 10 or 20 or 100 people the other side, and they're the crowd. So what the DJ does is the DJ will all of a sudden... Touch the water and send a ripple to the crowd. Now that ripple gets to the crowd and if the crowd like the energy of that ripple, then what they will do is as soon as that ripple hits them, they'll hit the water and then the ripple will bounce back slowly. So what you've got, you've got this sort of wall of water that just seems to go from one side to the other.

7:09 Up flights of stairs, lifts into big halls, into just small

DJ Tutor awkward effect on the water where the actual waves and ripples are going in every single direction so that's in a way how music works because when you play a track you feel the track and if you like the feeling you will dance and move according to that feeling if you don't like that feeling you're going to be moving in all kinds of directions now i honestly think ai Isn't at that position yet where it can determine and look at the crowd. I mean, OK, in China, a lot of people think that if you're wearing a mask, they can't see you. But now apparently in China, they have algorithms that watch you walk. So by the way you move, they can tell who you are. Anyway, digress. So Mobile DJ. Alright, it's very obvious that if you're a mobile DJ you have to be able to take your kit to any place and I have definitely worked in practically any place you can imagine, not in the world but definitely in the UK. Up flights of stairs, lifts into big halls, into just small...

Local halls, in private houses, in sheds, in gardens, in marquees. And how on earth can you have any form of like robot there? So could a robot take over from a mobile DJ? Now let's imagine you've got a mum and dad and their son, their daughter has their 18th birthday party. Let's look at this in 10 years time. And they want to have a DJ, but there is some kind of AI DJ. So they turn up, they have to hire Kit in and they hire this kind of robotic whatever that stands there and looks like they're pressing buttons and they're playing the music that the crowd like and everything's hunky-dory. Personally, I can't see that ever happening. Just, I can't see it. Again, in a comment let me know. Because there's nothing better than having a physical person there. Because let's be honest, I think the key here is mobile DJing, you need the communication from a human being with the crowd. You can't get that with a robot. You just can't. I mean, maybe you can in the distant future.

9:01 You need a human for that interaction

But at the moment, you absolutely can't. You need a human for that interaction. Also, again, I mean this is the future, but let's imagine as a mum and dad you've got the choice between having a robot, okay, hiring a robot, hiring the kit, hiring the lights, having a physical person having to set it up, but then again maybe in 20 years time you may have robots to set it up. You've still got to pay. You won't have this for free. You'd still have to pay for this service, or you have a real person play the music. And again, back to the music, right? Now maybe, okay, you've got the crowd, you've got The Door To The Sun and all their friends. They compile some kind of playlist. They send that out into the ether and then

It works out that playlist, it plays the tracks on that playlist and also incorporates others around that playlist. But for me, you cannot beat the human touch. And I think this is the key here. This is where we have to segregate in between AI and what AI is going to be good for and can do and what AI cannot do. Because you have a bit of a, there's more soul with the real DJ playing real music and being there instead of having some kind of robot. Now again, there's probably a lot of points I haven't touched on but let me know what you think because to me it is quite important because probably most of the people watching this video, this is our future, this is our business and in a way we need to make sure

Thank you very much for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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