Just what the world is waiting for: even more mediocre music.

The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs (via rev.vu).

David Cope didn’t set out to make anyone mad. In 1980, the composer envisioned a tool to help cure his creative block: a machine that could keep track of all the sounds and loose threads running through his mind, find similarities, and produce an entire piece of music inspired by it. So he built it.