The day is fast approaching when generative AI won’t only write and create images in a convincingly human-like style, but compose music and sounds that pass for a professional’s work, too. It’s not Meta’s first foray into audio generation — the tech giant open sourced an AI-powered music generator, MusicGen, in June — but Meta claims that it’s made advances that vastly improve the quality of AI-generated sounds, such as dogs barking, cars honking and footsteps on a wooden floor. On the subject of biases, MusicGen, Meta notes, doesn’t perform well on descriptions in languages other than English and musical styles and cultures that aren’t Western — owing to very obvious biases in its training data