“Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research” (1958) states a prediction by Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell: “a digital computer will write music that will be accepted by critics as possessing considerable aesthetic value”; horizon as stated: within ten years. The record says nothing about whether the event happened.
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Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research → states a prediction → a digital computer will write music that will be accepted by critics as possessing considerable aesthetic value