Artificial Intelligence - A Raving Playlist

Well, after writing our review for 2001, A Space Odyssey we asked ourselves the question, what type of music does HAL listen too. Sure we know he like to sign "Daisy" but that was when he a just a kid in the lab. Then we got to thinking, what about Watson, Skynet, Data, The Matrix Architect and even David from the movie AI - what music would they like? After doing an obsessive amount of research we came to the conclusion that most artificial intelligences would enjoy the songs in the playlist presented below and we have to say that we're quite surprised at what good taste they have in music. Perhaps it won't be as bad when they take over the planet as we thought it might be.

As usual the list is also available on Spotify...

What form sentient intelligence wouldn't like Depeche Mode?

Artificial Intelligence


The Smiths – How Soon Is Now?
Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence - Remastered Version Original
U2 – Electrical Storm - William Orbit Mix
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge
Genesis – Abacab - 2007 Remastered LP Version
Vangelis – Blade Runner (End Titles)
The Police – Spirits In The Material World - 2003 Stereo Remastered Version
Dido – Here With Me
Journey – Wheel In The Sky
White Zombie – More Human Than Human
A Flock Of Seagulls – Space Age Love Song
Depeche Mode – Policy Of Truth - 2006 Digital Remaster
The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot
Beck – Gamma Ray
Vangelis – Rachel's Song
The Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky
The Police – Synchronicity I - 2003 Stereo Remastered Version
Lenny Kravitz – Black Velveteen
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust - 2002 Digital Remaster
The Police – Synchronicity II - 2003 Stereo Remastered Version
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Parallel Universe
Vangelis – Memories Of Green
Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Original 7" Mix
The B-52's – Cosmic Thing
The Killers – When You Were Young
Steely Dan – Time Out Of Mind
The Alan Parsons Project – I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
Vangelis – La Petite Fille De La Mer
Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
Maroon 5 – Makes Me Wonder
The Alan Parsons Project – Time
The Fixx – Saved By Zero
Beck – E-Pro
A Flock Of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)
Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science
Tom Petty – Saving Grace
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels
Flight Of The Conchords – Robots
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Vangelis – Blade Runner Blues
The Police – Walking On The Moon - 2003 Stereo Remastered Version
The Alan Parsons Project – Sirius
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – If You Leave
Vangelis – One Alone
10,000 Maniacs – Because The Night  [MTV Unplugged Version]
The Smithereens – Only A Memory
Cracker – Low
Alice In Chains – Man In The Box
Eric Clapton – Forever Man
Depeche Mode – Strangelove
Steve Winwood – Higher Love - Full Album Version
U2 – When Love Comes To Town
Walk the Moon – Anna Sun
Vangelis – Main Titles (From Blade Runner)
U2 – One
John Mellencamp – Your Life Is Now
Chevelle – I Get It
The Police – Don't Stand So Close To Me
Counting Crows – Mr. Jones
The Alan Parsons Project – Games People Play
David Bowie – Space Oddity - 2009 Digital Remaster
Enya – Shepherd Moons
Vangelis – One More Kiss, Dear
Blur – Parklife
Alan Parsons – Return to Tunguska
Blondie – Atomic
Nirvana – The Man Who Sold The World
Vangelis – Love Theme From Bladerunner
Elvis Costello – Less Than Zero
Barenaked Ladies – Big Bang Theory Theme
Talking Heads – And She Was
The Human League – Fascination (Extended Remix)
Bush – Machinehead
Blur – Song 2
A Flock Of Seagulls – Telecommunication
Steve Miller Band – The Joker
The Fifth Dimension – Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In - Digitally Remastered 1997
Linkin Park – In The End
The Cars – Moving In Stereo
Chris Cornell – Ground Zero
The Rolling Stones – Can't You Hear Me Knocking - 2009 Re-Mastered Digital Version
Steely Dan – Reelin' In The Years
Lou Reed – Satellite Of Love
Maná – Vivir sin aire
The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You
Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do
David Bowie – Life On Mars? - 1999 Digital Remaster
Counting Crows – Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman)
Jimmy Eat World – My Best Theory
U2 – Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
The Black Crowes – Non-Fiction

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Watson is Skynet

We've been waiting for this - we've been watching, listening, dreading the future since 1984, wondering when and where it might happen. It's been more than 26 years, and then it happened - we turned on Jeopardy and there it was...

Skynet became self-aware, on Jeopardy. But Skynet has a clever disguise - he calls himself Watson and Watson is now online and on the air. How did it come to this? How could so many Terminator movies and even a Terminator series (the Sarah Conner Chronicles) have failed to stop this abomination from happening? How long do we have before the missiles begin raining fiery radioactive death on our heads (well, of course it will have to penetrate all of the Fukushima radiation first)?

The Terminator saga is pretty confusing, this clip doesn't help any

Watson may seem cuddly and lovable with his spiffy LCD screen and animated logo, but underneath that cool exterior lurks a CPU of darkness. Watson has now tasted his first victory over the human race - wiping out Jeopardy's all time champion with the same ease as a Cyborg crushes a plastic toy...

These aren't the real Jeopardy participants, but then again does it matter - we're all going to die in a fiery apocalypse launched by Skynet anyway...

What could this monster - this "artificial intelligence" be thinking right now. Is it planning how to enslave the human race and use us as batteries, is it thinking about cloning dinosaurs and opening an amusement park or maybe just maybe it is going to create a starship with warp drive and travel to a distant star with giant blue people to strip mine their planet and cut down their trees? We will probably never know what thoughts are embedded in his sinister code, even if that code was commented.

Someone intercepted this clip of one of Watson's dreams - he got really pissed off and is suing

Skynet is a complicated guy. Every time someone goes back and forth from the future he gets progressively more confused - much like the folks watching Terminator shows. In the terminator TV show Skynet was chess computer, then online code, then traffic control software and finally a big stupid looking guy named John Henry who liked to play Dungeons and Dragons. This is one the main reasons for Skynet's twisted personality...

Ok, this Terminator chick was in Firefly and Stargate Universe, right? What's up with that?

While we do appreciate that John Conner's mom got significantly better looking over the past 26 years - it doesn't make up for the fact that Skynet has arrived and he is mad! He is tired of teenagers hogging up all the Internet bandwidth with Facebook, Youtube and Netflix. He is sick of Fox News too, at least we think he might be. Watson is here, he is listening, learning and biding his time - for him its all a game and for us it's game over...


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