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Artificial Intelligence and the Arts AARON can make paintings of anything it knows about, but it actually knows about very little—people, potted plants and trees, simple objects like boxes and tables, decoration. From time to time I wonder whether it wouldn’t be a good idea to tell it about more, different, things, but I can never persuade myself that it would be any better for knowing how to draw a telephone, for example. So I always end up trying to make it draw better, not more. Image: A painting made by Harold Cohen’s computer program, AARON. Photo by Conall O’Brien

Artificial Intelligence and the Arts

AARON can make paintings of anything it knows about, but it actually knows about very little—people, potted plants and trees, simple objects like boxes and tables, decoration. From time to time I wonder whether it wouldn’t be a good idea to tell it about more, different, things, but I can never persuade myself that it would be any better for knowing how to draw a telephone, for example. So I always end up trying to make it draw better, not more.

Image: A painting made by Harold Cohen’s computer program, AARON.
Photo by Conall O’Brien

Posted 7 months ago

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harold cohen, conall o'brien, aaron, artificial intelligence, art, science, computer science,

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