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AI, maths and music boldly go into infinity … and beyond. Classical review by Robert Beale

When Bob Dylan said, “Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work,” he was likely talking about human musicians. But now, a growing crop of programmers are building sophisticated songwriting tools that use artificial intelligence, or AI, to assist aspiring composers. Some of the computer programs can create entire pieces of music from scratch, but the results might not be as captivating as Dylan�...