AI piano analogy does not play well for me | Brief letters

Tech in creative industries | Reform rubbish | The English exit | Harris’s hawk | The F wordJohn Hinkley says artificial intelligence “is a tool – like a piano is to a composer” (Letters, 31 March). I don’t find this a realistic comparison. No matter how many times a pianist uses her piano to compose or to play her own or others’ works on it, the piano will never appear alone on stage, playing its own compositions and taking the pianist’s place. It seems