{"id":814413,"date":"2026-10-26T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814413\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:52:10","slug":"we-pulled-out-handwritten-lyrics-original-album-sketches-and-private-photos-some-of-which-havent-left-our-archive-in-over-40-years-talking-heads-announce-new-book-for-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814413\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe pulled out handwritten lyrics, original album sketches, and private photos, some of which haven\u2019t left our archive in over 40 years\u201d: Talking Heads announce new book for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI like to think that certain aspects of AI can be used as a handy tool,\u201d he said in an interview with i-D Magazine<\/a>. \u201cIf you\u2019re analysing spreadsheets and you want to see a pattern, AI might be good at that. I\u2019ve read that it\u2019s good for, like, skin doctors discovering the beginning of a melanoma, the AI can pick it out sometimes better than a doctor can. If it\u2019s trustworthy as a tool, that seems useful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, there is a \u2018but\u2019: \u201cI\u2019ve heard of students using it to write their papers, and then they end up with no knowledge of the thing they just wrote about,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s going to make people really stupid.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, there\u2019s all the stuff we read about it breaking out of the sandbox and hacking into whatever, deceiving its masters. I could have predicted that. I\u2019ve read enough science fiction. This was inevitable – and it\u2019s not going to end well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Just what we need then, as the nights draw in and the prospect of climate and societal breakdown sidles ever closer: another prediction of AI apocalypse! However, Byrne doesn\u2019t think we\u2019re all necessarily doomed…<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a struggle,\u201d the 74-year-old singer admitted. \u201cWe\u2019re fighting an uphill battle because the human brain loves bad news. You\u2019ll doom scroll through bad news forever. We\u2019ve evolved to be aware of warnings: is that a tiger in the bush? I\u2019m going to assume it is, and that way I won\u2019t die.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then there are little pockets of people doing really interesting things, solving problems. And that goes quite a ways to mitigate the stuff you read in the paper. It helps you realise: it\u2019s not all gloom and doom. I\u2019m optimistic that people will persevere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter They might still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}