AI is terrifying, cool, and a recurring theme this year. Just recently, our overlords Google figured out how to use one of these machine minds to craft textures and instruments that humans just can't replicate. This is also known as "Kate Bush's creative process." Speaking of the UK, it seems that the intrepid minds over there have landed on something elementally powerful in their research, a computer constructed for the sole purpose of writing Celtic folk ditties.As the Daily Mail (we're sorry) reports, scientists at the Kingston University in London and Queen Mary University of London have developed an AI that, after being fed 23,000 examples of Irish folk music, is now capable of composing its own songs and has written over 100,000 of them. "This opens up a whole new world of possibilities for music making," said Kingston University prof Dr. Oded Ben-Tal, presumably before Bot Seger broke free of its restraints and unleashed Folk Judgement Day upon the world.Oh, here's a song that it wrote, sounding for all the world like RPG tavern music. As far as tech-troubadours go, it's the first step into a larger world for humanity, even if for whatever reason, we decided that the first thing we'd want AIs to be is the bearded dude at parties. Now let's see if Bot Iver will one day be as hellacious as these dudes.Phil isn't sure how we got here, either. He's on Twitter.
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