Ray Kurzweil and others tell us we're approaching the singularity, that moment in the not-too-distant future when machines become as intelligent as humans. Moments later they're smarter than us, and in weeks or months they've developed their own secret language, unparsable to humans, and we have the intelligence of root tubers compared to them. Then what happens?
I don't know the answer to that question – no-one does – but as a musician I'm curious to understand if machines are capable of developing…
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