This AI-written pop song is almost certainly a dire warning for humanity

Artificial intelligence has already been used to create a short film, snippets of angst-ridden poetry, and even the odd avant-garde melody. But the YouTube video above might just be the first pop song written by AI -- and it's almost certainly (probably) a dire warning for humanity. But what do these strange, foreboding lyrics mean? The song in question was created by researchers at Sony, who used the company's Flow Machines software to analyze a database of some 13,000 lead sheets (basic scores that record the melody and harmony of tracks) from different genres around the world. The software writes its own melodies, and a human composer, Benoît Carré, was drafted to turn material into a fully produced track.