But in all seriousness, auto-tune was invented by geologists who realized that they could use math to correct information from seismographs and then they extrapolated that concept to the concept of audio frequencies.
From 1976 through 1989, Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist in the geophysical industry, working for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics, a company he co-founded to create the world's first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation.