Robot 'Artists' Muddy the Meaning of Art

The Implications of Automating Creativity: Understanding the True Essence of Art

When Oxford art gallery director Aidan Meller and his team created Ai-Da, a human-form robot that can draw and paint using “machine learning” algorithms, they sought to challenge commonly held ideas of what art is.¹ Their website claims that the idea that “art is entirely a human affair” is no longer appropriate and that “Ai-Da creates art because art no…