4th November AI threat intensifies

If every there was a single moment when the danger of AI became apparent  to the world it was at 2pm last Friday afternoon when the last  song by the Beatles (hopefully) hit the airwaves.

From the first piano chords of Now and Then, it became obvious to even the most die hard Beatles fan just why the song has remained as a demo on a cassette in a shoe box in the back of John Lennon's wardrobe. And that's where it would and should have have remained but for the fact that the AI genie has been let loose out of the bottle.

The remaining Beatles who are alive, sensing an opportunily to make a fast buck and remind the world they were actually alive, were quick to jump on the bandwagon, by adding some base lines and a drum track that could be played by a four year old. 

Mix in some swooping strings, a guitar solo from the other Beatle who is dead, throw in a whole heap of nostalgia and wall to wall radio play and you've got a hit. Even though the song itself is dreadful and if it had been released by any band other that the Beatles would never have made any playlist. 

And whilst many would see this as just a harmless trip back down memory lane, just think what aural terrors AI could launch on the world it it were ever to gain access to the unreleased demos of Westlife, Oasis or heaven forbid Jedward!!!!