You probably knew this day was coming: A computer has made a pop song. No, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber (or the people who secretly write much of the stars' music) shouldn't fear for their jobs just yet. The song is the product of Flow Machines, a project from Sony's Paris-based Computer Science Laboratory to create music using artificial intelligence. According to Flow Machines' website, its AI analyzes a large database of 13,000 music samples, then gets programmed to compose a song in a certain style. In the case of the first track released, "Daddy's Car," the system was told to create music in the style of the Beatles. The result does have a soothing, poppy Beatles quality.

In order to create an artificial intelligence system like Flow Machines capable of composing music, programmers had to feed the program thousands and thousands of examples of sheet music from a large database. The sheet music in this database consisted of songs of varying styles. After Flow Machines analyzed all of the sheet music, a human composer gave the AI system a style prompt as a basis for a composition. Flow Machines was able to take that initial prompt and turn it into a complete melody and harmony.

In order to create an artificial intelligence system like Flow Machines capable of composing music, programmers had to feed the program thousands and thousands of examples of sheet music from a large database. The sheet music in this database consisted of songs of varying styles. After Flow Machines analyzed all of the sheet music, a human composer gave the AI system a style prompt as a basis for a composition. Flow Machines was able to take that initial prompt and turn it into a complete melody and harmony.

Earlier this week, Sony CSL research released the first ever pop song to be composed entirely by an AI system which is called Flow Machines. A human musician, a French composer named Benoit Carre produced, mixed, and wrote the lyrics for the song but the melody and harmony of the track were composed entirely by Flow Machines. In order to create an artificial intelligence system like Flow Machines capable of composing music, programmers had to feed the program thousands and thousands of examples of sheet music from a large database. The sheet music in this database consisted of songs of varying styles. After Flow Machines analyzed all of the sheet music, a human composer gave the AI system a style prompt as a basis for a composition.

NBC, which only launched three new series this fall, is showing confidence in its new drama "This Is Us," ordering five additional episodes and giving the series a full season order. The show is the first of the major networks' new fall programs to receive a full season order. Critics mostly praised the series, and it premiered last week to strong numbers, earning 14.3 million viewers overall. "This order for a complete first season of 18 episodes is exactly what we'd wanted and hoped for," executive producer Dan Fogelman said in a statement. "We'd carefully mapped out an 18-chapter story for the first year of the show. To get the order so early on is a tremendous show of confidence and a boost for our entire cast and crew."

It's a new TV season, but the first week's ratings indicate that the networks will be facing what has become the same old problem with younger viewers. During premiere week for the 2016-17 season, overall prime-time TV usage was off around 7% among the 18-to-34 age group compared with a year ago, based on Nielsen data. The number has been on a downward trend over the last few years, reflecting the emergence of online video streaming and video on demand. "They are watching," Jeff Bader, president of program planning, strategy and research for NBC, said of the increasingly elusive younger demographic. "They are just watching in different places. That audience watches where they want, when they want."

"Westworld" is HBO's latest show with potential to be everyone's new obsession. Filled with intrigue and mind-bending futurism, "Westworld" paves its own way in masterful fashion through questions that are hyper-relevant to our current exploration into robotics engineering and artificial intelligence. The show manages this while maintaining a fantastical element of late 1800s Western society and confronting viewers with questions of their own empathy and potential for cruelty. "Westworld" is based on the 1973 movie of the same name, written and directed by Michael Crichton (of "Jurassic Park" fame). The concept of the HBO show is essentially the same: In the future, humans have advanced technology to the point where anthropomorphic robots are indistinguishable from real people.

In the future, the only astronauts capable of finding a new home planet for the human race won't be human at all. Robot astronauts will save us all. In the short film, Planet Unknown, Earth is in serious danger of having its life-sustaining resources run out, and the only astronauts are robots roaming the cosmos in search of a suitable replacement world. Planet Unknown introduces us to two such intelligent robot astronauts that are roving about with impressive speed, mainly because they're without the cumbersome suits and life support systems required by human astronauts. Problem is, they're not having much luck.

Will Westworld really be the next Game of Thrones? The trailers and posters we've seen so far seem to suggest so. While its marketing team is definitely pushing the'sci-fi western that grapples with man's incessant need to tinker with technology' angle, this is still HBO. It's got sex, violence, and weird stabby sex murder. And that's just the bits we've seen.

DJI has unveiled a new, fold-up drone that can be controlled with a wave of your hand. The 999 Mavic Pro is equipped with Gesture Mode and a 12-megapixel camera, allowing it to find you and snap a hands-free selfie without touching the remote. The compact drone folds up to roughly the size of a water bottle and can fly up to eight miles at a time – and with the immersive DJI Goggles, users can get a first-person view of the flight. DJI has unveiled a new, fold-up drone that can be controlled with a wave of your hand. Mavic Pro can be guided using a controller, smartphone, or even gestures.