Does art generated by Artificial Intelligence spell the end of human creativity?

An art prize at the Colorado State Fair was awarded last month to a work that – unbeknown to the judges – was generated by an artificial intelligence system. Social media have also seen an explosion of weird images generated by AI from text descriptions, such as "the face of a shiba inu blended into the side of a loaf of bread on a kitchen bench, digital art". You may be wondering what's going on here. As somebody who researches creative collaborations between humans and AI, I can tell you that behind the headlines and memes a fundamental revolution is under way – with profound social, artistic, economic and technological implications. You could say this revolution began in June 2020, when a company called OpenAI achieved a big breakthrough in AI with the creation of GPT-3, a system that can process and generate language in much more complex ways than earlier efforts.