The following is an excerpt from an article written on music composition and artificial intelligence:
"One afternoon, a few years after he’d begun work on Emmy, Cope clicked a button and went out for a sandwich, and she spit out 5,000 beautiful, artificial Bach chorales, work that would’ve taken him several lifetimes to produce by hand."
It doesn't stop getting more and more fascinating, either:
http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/triumph-of-the-cyborg-composer-8...
Shoutout to Mike S. for sending me this article!