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COULD AI MAKE MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU?

You might not think that an AI capable of making music would signal the end of free will, but others think differently. Particularly those who gathered at Mexico City's El Cantoral symphony hall in 2019 for the Latin American premiere of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Finished With AI.

I sat between my father and a Chilean movie star as the conductor led the orchestra in a performance of the symphony that I had written… Well, that I had sort of written. Before he died in 1828, Franz

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