Artificial intelligence hasn't taken over the planet just yet. But if, like me, you listen to a lot of radio, you'd think that the machines are about to inherit the Earth. Hours upon to think, write and create like us. These bots can hold a pretty decent conversation, create digital art based on your descriptions and even compose music, and in response, every news presenter seems to believe that we've got a full-blown existential crisis on our hands. Broadcasts typically go like this: experts are brought on to say whether it really is last orders for humankind while the presenter throws around words like doomsday, armageddon and annihilation, before they wrap up and chat about the afternoon's cricket scores. Meanwhile, AI developers – you know, the people who could do something about all this – seem to be quitting their jobs en masse and throwing on sandwich boards emblazoned with ‘The end is nigh’.
