There's an art to trolling. AI won't create music like the 80s indie pop band Beat Happening, who sort of invented twee pop. Their music was so rough and sometimes off-key. They didn't know how to make music; they just made sounds they liked. AI is not going to do that because it makes music that makes sense. AI writes books that make sense. It's

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As Donald Knuth put it: “Ai has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and animals do without thinking …”

What do we have left that is ours and ours alone? Sensorimotor skills that are all but automatic, yes. Consciousness, yes. Emotions. Instinct. Appetites, impulses and... See more