How AI helped complete Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony

For the nearly two centuries since Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, his 10th Symphony has sat unfinished and largely untouched. All the German composer left behind were a few sketches. But with a little help from modern technology, that is about to change. The World’s Bianca Hillier has the story.

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