Robot Writes Bad Christmas Song Because We Get the AI We Deserve

Music is about feeling and robots cannot feel. Nevertheless, scientists at the University of Toronto programmed an AI to write a Christmas song, and while Boing Boing deems this "not bad" and "a triumph," it comes off as hauntingly stoic and vaguely threatening. Christmas trees are not filled with flowers. We don't say "I swear it's Christmas Eve." The best Christmas present in a world is not a blessing, it's an actual goddamn present.