Artificial intelligence may be able to mimic emotion, but it cannot feel it. It may be able to research the context in which it exists, but it doesn’t know it. AI is based on algorithms, patterns and imitation, so how can it possess creativity? 


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… is a London-based musicologist, currently working with AI. In addition to freelance work as a music journalist, gig photographer and composer, he plays drums and keyboards in the post-metal band Beatrix.