While AI-generated music dominates charts around the world, the band Dreamlin did something remarkably similar over two decades ago. In 2002, they released "Without Thinking”, a fully realized lyrical track whose words were generated by an early poetry program written by Raymond Kurzweil, now a household name in AI futurism and a Google executive since 2012.

Band member Egor Kunovsky fed prompts into the program and got back something unexpectedly poetic: a vintage computer's musings on basement ceilings, a sun yellower than grass, and other oddly melancholic observations. Denis Korabkov composed the music, and a Canadian collaborator known as Avalo recorded the vocals remotely, a workflow that was quietly radical for 2002 but feels routine by 2026.

A few years after the release, director Artsiom Lobach created a grim animated music video with a distinctly industrial, urban-decay atmosphere. It went into heavy rotation on Belarusian music television in 2006 and kept audiences watching long after.

In an era when "AI-assisted" has become a meaningless marketing tag, Dreamlin's experiment stands out as something rarer: a genuine act of curiosity about what a machine might have to say, long before it mattered for mainstream audiences.