After graduating from the Ponts et Chaussées engineering school, and being a Lecturer in artificial intelligence at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, François Pachet joined the SONY Computer Science Laboratory in Paris, where he became Director in 2014. With the ERC project Flow-Machines, he has created, with his team, a song in the Beatles-style (Daddy’s car), and after this, the first multi-artist album composed by an AI (Hello World) in 2018. He is now Director of the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab in Paris.