Always Be Curious #197: Intel's automotive chips, transparent TVs, and 1980s generative AI

This week in ABC: Intel announces a family of chips for future software-defined cars, CES has plenty of AI and very cool display tech, and the Commodore Amiga does generative AI...but in the 80s!?

This week, computing blog Break Into Chat’s Josh Renaud unearthed two generative AI-like programs—but from the 80s! 😲 The “Magic Harp” and “Computer Composer” demos were built by programmer (and famous cartoonist) Yaakov Kirschen in 1986 and could generate new music by recombining patterns extracted from existing music. He described the demos as extrac…