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Hatsune Miku is a synthesized voice from a program called Vocaloid.  One needs to only type in some words and select what pitch they desire and soon they’ll have a virtual ‘diva’ preform it for them.  Of course it isn’t quite that simple, but for sake of simplicity we’ll leave it at that.

Miku is likely the most popular voices and has for several years now known Internet fame both in her native land of Japan, and around the world.  And if you watch these few of her videos, you might see why.

＊Hello, Planet。

‘*Hello, Planet.’ tells a touching story between an android and her master.  Waking up in a shelter all alone after some sort of apocalypse Miku goes out searching far and wide for her human owner and friend.

Love is War

A sad story about a girl and her frustrations and sadness over her desire for love and affection from one who has found it in another and glances not her way.

Alice of Human Sacrifice -

A chilling story performed by Miku and some of her friends, about a more twisted world of Wonderland involving death, blood, murder, and sadness.

Hatsune Miku VOCALOID2 – Green Hill Zone

Even a simple 8-bit song from the Sega Genesis isn’t safe from Miku.

At first this cute synthesizer might seem innocuous, right?  Well if you think that, YOU’RE WRONG; DEAD WRONG.  Hatsune Miku and her friends pose perhaps the greatest threat to the performers of music and more.  It is something of chilling thought that I would see it in my time.  It could be the beginning of something from a science fiction Apocalypse story, I mean effectively, that robots are beginning to take over the creative arts.

No longer are performers needed for lyricists to sell their songs to.  No longer are voice actors for cartoons and such necessary with voices as smooth and maintained as these.  Perhaps for a while natural talent may be yet still be preferred, but if generated voices can gain popularity and less stigma, it will be the death kneel for such talents and enterprises, and robot kind will lay claim to yet another contested ground.

First it’s the grunt repetitive labor (intellectual and physical), then it’s the arts and music, and then it’s WORLD DOMINATION.

So while maybe you see some cutesy Japanese singing cartoon girl, I SEE AN ANIMATRONIC DEVIL CLOSING IN UPON THE VERY WAYS OF HUMANKIND AS SHE MUSTERS AN ARMY OF HELLISH MACHINES TO RULE THE WORLD WITH A CYBERNETIC TITANIUM FIST!

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing however, as humans still seem to be ahead in concepts and ideas and would still be pulling the strings, but how long will it be until AI reaches that ability?  Of what value is a human life when it can be replicated and surpassed?  Today, it is audio-communicative ability, what if tomorrow it is advanced creative thinking?  The evolutionary rate of machines certainly seems to be much faster than that of humans, how much longer will we stay ahead?  And if they do surpass humans, is that a bad thing?  What will they have learned from us (should they even be made distinct from us)?  Are we heading for a utopia thanks to the humility and wisdom humanity imparted to machines who then grew upon such matters, full of beautiful, crystal voices?  Or again, are we heading some strange and frightening future as described by science fiction?  Where Japanese programs rule all ZA WARUDO?

Only the future will tell.