Mere hours after the arrival of "Heart on My Sleeve," the AI-generated "Drake" song that went viral last spring, the doomsday projections began pouring in. The main reason the song generated so much buzz is that Drake is one of the world's most popular musicians. But part of what gave us pause is that hip hop--which celebrates its 50th birthday this week--is driven by a spontaneity that feels as authentically human as anything humans have ever come up with. That is, rap is a unique form of human language, and if AI can mimic that, maybe nothing is safe. If the future is already here, then the impacts of generative AI will be even greater in the next decades, especially when it comes to hip hop.

Though not an alternative to human knowledge and ingenuity, AI is considered a supporting tool to help humans. Though Al presently has a tough time completing different tasks involving common sense in the real world, it is able to process large amounts of data faster compared to a human brain.

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In a workshop at the Boston headquarters of Rethink Robotics, engineers are tending to a troop of eight bright red robots called Baxter. Each robot has a humanoid upper torso and a pair of friendly blue eyes on a small screen that track the robots' two arms as the engineers move them. Off to the side of the room, senior product manager Brian Benoit is assembling a new robot called Sawyer--Baxter's little brother. It has just one arm and is also smaller, faster, and more precise than Baxter. If things go as the company hopes, this new robot will find work alongside humans on many manufacturing production lines.