Is this the world's first good robot album?

Benoît Carré has written songs for some of France's biggest stars: from Johnny Halliday – the French Elvis, who died last year – to chanteuse Françoise Hardy. But this month, the 47-year-old is releasing an album with a collaborator he could never have dreamt of working with. It's called Flow Machines, and it is, arguably, the world's most advanced artificially intelligent music program. Recently, it's often felt like AI is about to take over the music world – that soon, computers will be making our favourite songs. AI has been used to write classical music and Irish folk songs.