The first AI pop album is on its way Toronto Star

If you've ever lamented that everything you hear on the radio today sounds like it was written by a machine, brace yourself for the future: The robots are coming. But artificial intelligence is already being employed to write music, and Los Angeles-based musician and YouTube video star Taryn Southern is getting in on the ground floor by recording the first album composed entirely using AI, which should leave her well placed for sympathy when the robots eventually take over -- assuming, of course, that AI is by then sufficiently advanced that robots can actually feel sympathy. Southern hears jokes like that a lot, as you might imagine. But no, she's not worried that AI will eventually render human musicians and composers obsolete. And if the day comes when AI does take over music, she says, we'll all have far bigger worries on our hands.