Artificial intelligence has come a long way. We take its presence for granted when we program our thermostats, or when it runs manufacturing robots or helps the staff at a pizza shop, or when it links your phone to the camera at your front door.
In the spirit of innovation, people are trying to find out what else it can do. For example, can AI create art? Some claim that AI can do that.
A digital art competition was held last July at the Colorado State Fair. Here's the piece that won:
Some of the contestants were upset when they discovered that AI had generated the image. The judges said they would have given it the prize even if they had known.
Is it art if it was generated by artificial intelligence? Does AI actually create, as humans do?
(cont'd tomorrow)
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