I haven’t said much about all this new artificial-intelligence stuff, so let me go on the record: Much as with driverless cars, I have deep worries about and skepticism of AI, and I think it will cause all sorts of problems eventually, if it is not doing so already. (Are my concerns Dune-influenced? Perhaps — the anti-AI movement in that universe is called the “Butlerian Jihad,” after all.) But, in the meantime, it will give us SpongeBob SquarePants character Squidward Tentacles singing “My Way” in the style of Frank Sinatra:
Resident National Review musicologist Jeffrey Blehar informed me that there is even more material like this to be found:
Those who know the character might find Squidward’s singing “Mad World” as hauntingly covered by Gary Jules (Tears for Fears did the original) just a little too on the (very large) nose. But clearly Mr. Tentacles has been wasting his time on the clarinet: His voice is the only instrument he needs.
At least our AI apocalypse will have some amusing diversions.