It can paint any picture you can imagine – and many more that you can’t. It devours every word on the internet then tells us what we want to hear. Its invisible algorithms oversee more of our lives than we’re ever aware of. But what can AI, or artificial intelligence, do with music? Music writer Abi Bliss meets the people who are working with cutting-edge machine learning technology to produce sounds never heard before. What’s it like to create in partnership with a neural network? What does an AI-powered future hold for human musicians? And how might it change the way we listen?