Sleepwalkers Podcast: What Happens When Machines Find Their Creative Muse

In March 2018, an eerie portrait created by an artificial intelligence program sold at Christie's Auction House for almost half a million dollars. A few months later, a movie written and directed by an AI algorithm was released amid much hype. And this March, a record company signed an AI artist for the first time. Artificial creativity is the subject of the second episode of the Sleepwalkers podcast, an ongoing series exploring the implications of AI. Machine-made art has flourished in recent years, thanks to advances in AI, and some examples are both impressive and unnerving.