#220 Artificial Intelli-Vision song contest
Set by Zoe Mensch
There was controversy at this year’s Artificial Intelli-Vision song contest, in which each of the competing countries used AI to generate their entries.
Every nation had a judging panel that gave a score to each of the others. The “songwriters” all tried to engineer a higher score for their country by letting an AI generate their ditty as a danceable blend of one other country’s all-time favourite tunes.
This led to a strange outcome. Each judging panel awarded 10 points to the song tailored to its national preferences and the same …