Finish to Schubert's symphony was far from artificial

Almost 200 years after Franz Schubert abandoned his Symphony No 8, the Chinese electronics giant Huawei has employed smartphone A.I. to finish it. Donal O’Keeffe attends the London premiere, and recalls another artificial intelligence with musical pretensions.

Taking my seat in Belgravia’s historic Cadogan Hall for the first public performance of Unfinished Symphony, a modern-day completion of a revered work of classical music using the artificial intelligence in a smartphone, I found myself thinking of Star Trek’s android Lieutenant Commander Data.