“In 2005, in a decision that I find bewildering, Cope destroyed EMI’s entire database of musical signatures. The main reason he…
“In 2005, in a decision that I find bewildering, Cope destroyed EMI’s entire database of musical signatures. The main reason he gave was that EMI’s compositions, being so easily and infinitely producible, were devalued by critics. Cope felt that EMI would be valued as a composer only if it had, as the philosopher Margaret Boden wrote, a ‘finite ouevre — as all human composers, beset by mortality, do’.”— Mitchell, Melanie. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. London: Pelican Books, 2019.