Writing in 1842, Ada Lovelace imagines that in the future, Babbage’s Analytical Engine (general, purpose programmable computer) will be able to create complex music. In the 2017 novel by famous Russian writer Victor Pelevin, set in the late 21st century, the narrator is an algorithm solving crimes and writing novels about them. Today we exist somewhere between these two visions of cultural AI (Artificial Intelligence). Algorithms are frequently used to write music, but they don’t really “understand” the human world and human meanings. Whether the latter will ever happen is unclear.