Iain Strachan

 I have been playing recently with the AI program "chatGPT" which has been causing quite a stir recently.  Initially I tried fairly silly questions to trip it up, and attempts to get it to write poetry (it can't!). But then I hit on the idea of getting it to rewrite an serious article about a minor academic discovery I made in 1996, in the style of a tabloid newspaper, such as the Daily Mail, and to suggest a headline for it. The details of the story are below in the text of the AI-generated article and the question I submitted to chatGPT.   chatGPT's "Daily Mail" style article about Shostakovich: SHOCK DISCOVERY: Data Scientist Uncovers Shostakovich's Cryptic Musical Message Beyond the Grave!  Iain Strachan, a data scientist with a love for mathematics and music, has made a startling discovery about the music of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. While studying for his PhD in machine learning, Strachan uncovered a hidden pattern in Shostakovich...