EUROVISION FOR ROBOTS

This morning Wilson was bemoaning the fact that because of the Covid-19 Pandemic there would be no Eurovision Song Contest this year.

Nërp replied that the VPRO Eurovision was still on and, although he realised it wasn't quite the same, maybe it would be better than nothing.

'VPRO?' Wilson demanded, 'What's that?'

Nërp explained that it was the system hosting Eurovision AI – the Eurovision for Robots.

'Songs are composed and performed by Artificial Intelligence,' he continued, 'then voted on for Lyrics, Originality and Eurovision-ness. It's very good!'

Nërp says that you can hear and vote on the entries here: 

https://www.vprobroadcast.com/titles/ai-songcontest.html

Everyone immediately trooped into the living-room where Nërp beamed the website to the tv where we watched Eurovision-AI together. 

It was… well… different.

When everyone had finished voting, Wilson gave his opinion: 'Politically naïve but clearly pushing the epistemological parameters of art as a construct of reality.'

This is exactly what he said about the sTone Brothers' installation piece – I wonder whether he's been reading Pseud's Corner in Private Eye?