By: Ethan Pu

AI Art Programs are particularly fascinating in the way they work and there is no end to their creative possibilities. Artificial Intelligence is catching up to the capabilities of human beings. These AI’s can create a piece of art by using resources from the internet that others have provided. AI can generate a painting in a single second. It might take a human artist hundreds of hours to make the same work. It is not necessary to be an artist or even creative to generate stunning works of art.

Is it enough for humans to provide all the instructions to the robot to call it “real” art? No computer can duplicate a personal feeling and the time and effort that a human put into the work. There is no connection to the human emotions that a robot can recreate. AIs can perfect the image, but a human artist would give it a different dimension.

AIs are limited in their capacity to produce something original. Though they’re capable of random selection, they’re borrowing information and images that previously existed on the internet. It is difficult to understand how AI generated art can compare to human artwork.