The Most Unwanted Song

“The Most Unwanted Song” was recorded in 1997 in response to a survey taken by the Dia Foundation where the 500 respondents listed their favorite and least favorite aspects of music. The Dia Foundation recruited Komar and Melamid, who are the visual designers People’s Choice painting series, to make an album with two songs based on these opinion polls.

Together with neuroscientists David Sulzer(a.k.a David Soldier) to produce and record “The Most Wanted Song” and “The Most Unwanted Song.”

“The Most Unwanted Song” is a combination of an opera singer rapping about cowboys, bagpipes, a children’s choir urging customers to shop at Wal-Mart, and a leftist protestor shouting on a bullhorn.

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Hear an AI Chatbot, Masquerading as a Clueless Grandmother, Waste the Time of an Internet Scam Artist

And now for a good use of AI, which is something I never thought I’d say.

The UK-based telecom company O2 has developed a chatbot (“named Daisy”) that performs a noble task. Impersonating an elderly grandmother, the chatbot engages with internet fraudsters and then systematically frustrates them and wastes their time. As part of a demo, notes The Guardian, Daisy wasted a series of fraudsters’ time for up to 40 minutes each– “when they could otherwise have been scamming real people.” The AI system was trained on real scam calls–according to Virgin Media O2’s marketing director, Simon Valcarcel–so it “knows exactly the tactics to look out for, exactly the type of information to give to keep the scammers online and waste time.” If you have three minutes to spare, you can listen to Daisy clown a scam artist below.

(From Open Culture)

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